PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday 27
February 2016
HE CAME TO
HIS SENSES
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Then he came to his senses
and said, ‘How many of my father’s paid servants have more food than they want,
and here am I dying of hunger? I will leave this place and go to my father’ …
His father saw him and was moved with pity.” (Luke 15:1 ..32)
Reflection. That moment of coming to my senses –
how can it be described? It is a new creation, a new life. What has to happen
for a person to come to that moment? Some circumstance jolts a person into a
new way of thinking. We can sense the surge of the moment – like turning on a
light switch. All is clear. It is a moment of intense joy, but also mixed with
sorrow for the blindness that preceded it. And the father’s joy is also
intense. He is moved with pity. This charged scene sums up our longings for the
Year of Mercy: that the world, each one of us, comes to our senses.
Prayer. Lord, we ask for you mercy in this
year of grace, for each one of us and for all your people. Amen.
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