IF YOUR EYE IS SOUND

PRAYER PAUSE

Friday 17 June 2016  

IF YOUR EYE IS SOUND

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “The lamp of the body is the eye. It follows that if your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light.” (Matt 6:19-23)

Reflection. It is a striking image. If we can see, we can run and jump, read and write. We don’t have to think about it. And Jesus says, if the orientation of your life is sound, if we spend a life time trying to make selfless choices, then everything will work out. “All will be well.” I am always struck by the example of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He kept making choices which went against the grain of his contemporaries, who thought him eccentric and unhappy. But as he lay dying in Dublin in 1889 his last words were, “I am so happy!” He said that though hardly a word of his was published before he died. But later he would be recognised as the greatest poet of the century.

Prayer. Lord, teach us not to fret over details, but to work that the orientation of our life is outwards from us to others and so to you. Amen