Tuesday, 31 May 2016

FAN INTO A FLAME

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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