PRAYER MOMENT
Monday 29
February 2016
NOT ACCEPTED
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I tell you solemnly, no prophet
is ever accepted in his own country.” (Luke 4:24-30)
Reflection. Our readings grapple each day with
the question of conversion, changing one’s mind. Naaman the Syrian opens his
mind twice: once when he listens to a little captive girl and again when he
listens to his own servants (2 Kings 5:1-15). He is a foreigner, an outsider.
The lost son in the parable has to go to a foreign country before he can clear
his mind and recognise the compassion of God. There is something frightening
about familiarity, habit, complacency, routine. They dull the mind and leave us
incapable of seeing things differently.
Prayer. Lord, help us to keep an open mind
to the surprises you send us each day. Amen.
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