PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
18 June 2015
OUR
DAILY BREAD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Give us today our daily
bread.” (Matthew 6:7-15)
Reflection. I once heard Raymond Brown,
a renowned Scripture scholar, explaining the difficuly of translating these
words. “Our daily bread” isn’t really what it says. It is more like ‘Give us
all that we need today to live as your people.’ So it covers everything from
food to wisdom and health and includes the bread of the Eucharist. And it is a
phrase that makes everything sacred. In the words of Teilhard de Chardin it
means that from the one who grows the wheat to the one who grinds the flour to
the one who consecrates the bread on the altar – every action is sacred and
everything is part of our response to our Father. The prayer expresses our
desire to find God in all things.
Prayer. Lord, help us to find you
in everything, even the simple actions of each day.Amen.
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