CUCUMBERS AND MELONS

PRAYER MOMENT  

Monday 3 August 2015

CUCUMBERS AND MELONS

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Think of the fish we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic! Here we are wasting away, stripped of everything.” (Numbers 11:4-15)

Reflection. If we were Israelites marooned in the desert we migt have come up with a different list of our favourite foods as we looked back to happier times. Apple pie would be on mine. Here in Zambia I came across a group of Zimbabeans yesterday who look back with regret to their lives in Zimbabwe before their land was taken from them. Regret for the lost past is natural but it can ditract us from the present - which is all we have! The past is gone and the future is uncertain. The Israelites were failing to let the experience of their formation into a new people – painful as it ws at times - sink deep within them. We can do the same. What I live now is my life – not some happy past nor some wished for future.  

Prayer. Lord, help us to live in the present moment and to see you with us there in all the events of our day. Amen

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