LONGED TO SEE

PRAYER PAUSE

Tuesday 26 July 2016, Joachim and Anna  

LONGED TO SEE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Many holy people longed to see what you see, and never saw it.” (Matt 13:16-17)

Reflection. Joachim and Anna are the only grandparents who find their way into the Church’s calendar. They are here representing all our grannies and grandpas, all our elderly people. I suppose most old people have given up on great plans for the future and are quietly giving thanks for the past. But they are longing too, whether they articulate it as such or not, a longing for the fulfilment of human life which they have tasted but not to the full. We have the seeds of the future but not yet the reality. The kingdom of God has both come and has not yet come.

Prayer. Lord, we are grateful for all that we live. Yet we long for the fulfilment of our own lives and that of the whole of creation. Amen