PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 3
May 2016, Philip and James
YOU STILL DO
NOT KNOW ME
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Have I been with you all this time,
Philip,” said Jesus to him, “and you still do not know me.” (John 14:6-14)
Reflection. It was a tough answer to Philip who
was trying to understand but it shows the gap there is between our confidence and
what the reality is. We get to a point where we think we are comfortable in our
outlook and beliefs and then we hear something and we are no longer so sure. A
friend sent me an account of Dan Berrigan, priest, poet and protestor, who has
just died, and in his old age he confessed – when asked about his prayer – that
it was blank. He had gone so far but then he reached the darkness of John of
the Cross and Teresa of Calcutta.
Prayer. Lord, “I believe; help my unbelief. Amen
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