PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 1 June
2016, St Justin
FAN INTO A
FLAME
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “That is why I am reminding you now
to fan into a flame the gift that God gave you.” (2 Timothy 1…12)
Reflection. We can see it in other people how they
struggle, sometimes at great cost, to develop their gift. I have recently
become aware of what the poet and Jesuit, Gerard Manley Hopkins, went through not
just to write poetry but to find his way in a world where he felt he was a
stranger. I think we all feel that at times. The call is to develop our own particular
being, our “thisness”, with confidence and inner joy, so that “Christ plays in ten thousand places,. Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his”, to quote
GMH..
Prayer. Lord, teach us to develop the gift
that you give each of us. Amen.
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