WELLS YOU DID NOT DIG

PRAYER MOMENT  

Saturday 8 August 2015, St Dominic

WELLS YOU DID NOT DIG

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “The Lord has brought you into the land… with great and prosperous cities that you did not build, houses you did not furnish, wells you did not dig…” (Deutreronomy 6:4-13)

Reflection. We inherit so much. It is true we count the blessings of the present time with all its improvements even over the past fifty years not to speak of the last four centuries. But in the larger picture we inherit so much going back over the ages. In his Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius of Loyola has a “cry of wonder” at the way the whole of creation is at my service and he gives a brief list of the elements of nature and all God’s work and he ends up with that Pauline cry (Galatians 2) that it is all “for me.” We stand in gratitude for everything that we inherit and on top of that the promise of divine life that we share and will share to the full.

Prayer. Lord, help us to be truly grateful for for the gift of life and all that it brings us. Amen.

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