PRAYER MOMENT
Tuesday 29
December 2015
THE SECRET
THOUGHTS OF MANY
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “destined for the fall and rise of
many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is rejected – and a sword will
pierce your own soul to –so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.”
(Luke 2:22-35)
Reflection. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin believed that
the essential of being human is the power to choose. Countless people live
their lives boxed in my repressive regimes and have no room to exercise this
essential. The coming of the Messiah calls for a choice. Despite oppressive
circumstances men and women from now on have to choose and what their choices
are will now be revealed. In practice they hardly had a choice before. Now they
have. And what were their choices? We have seen Mary’s. We have seen Herod’s.
Each generation is faced with choices.
Prayer. Lord, as we approach a new year,
help us to make generous choices that hurry on the arrival of the kingdom, the reign
of God. Amen.
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