PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 17
May 2016
DESIRES
FIGHTING INSIDE YOU
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Where do these wars and battles
between you first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting within your
own selves?” (James 4:1-10)
Reflection. Wars that bring havoc and cause migrants
to become refugees start within a person. They cannot deal with their anger,
frustration, ambition, jealousy, and so forth, and so they project it outwards
into violence against others. Then there is war. We know so well what goes on
in our own heart and how easily our feelings prompt us to words and actions we
later regret. Life in the spirit in every tradition calls for self-control or
self-denial – whatever word you want to put on the ability to hold ourselves in
as a rider grips the reins of their horse which is rearing to go
Prayer. Lord, teach us that self-control
that enables us to be at peace even with those with whom we struggle. Amen.
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