Wednesday, 10 February 2016

CHOOSE LIFE

PRAYER MOMENT


Thursday 11 February 2016, Our Lady of Lourdes   


CHOOSE LIFE


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live in the love of the Lord your God.” (Deut. 30:15-20)


Reflection. Lent wastes no time in reminding us that life is about choices; choices that give life and choices that diminish us. The newly emancipated Israelites in the desert are now free to make a choice. Then the gospel for today comes in rather bluntly and says the choice that gives life is the one that, “loses life for my sake.” (Luke 9:22-5). I have just been for medical “tests” and m awaiting the outcome, I found myself asking, “what if they find something life threatening?” How will I take it? Finding the roots of our experience in the gospel is not always straightforward.  Lent helps us move that way. 


Prayer. Lord, may we see our own experience in our Lent readings and darw life from that source. Amen.






















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