TAKE NOTHING FOR THE JOURNEY

PRAYER MOMENT

Thursday 4 February 2016   

TAKE NOTHING FOR THE JOURNEY

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purse.”  (Mark 6:7-13)

Reflection. St Francis would have taken these instructions literally but we, most of us I suppose, pack spare clothes and a laptop, power point projector, books and papers. Yet there is an underlying call here that applies to Francis and to all of us: we are to work as though everything depends on us while at the same time believing that the outcome is beyond us. It is in the hands of God. It is his work. We entrust the outcome to him even as we work. Luther had a powerful thought about “the word.” We strive to utter it but is has a power all its own which is beyond us.  

Prayer. Lord, help us to work and trust that the outcome of all we do is n your hands. Amen.