PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 19 November 2016
ALL ARE
ALIVE
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Now he is a God, not of the dead,
but of the living; for to him all people are in fact alive.” (Luke 20:27-40)
Reflection. It is a theme of the great novelists;
what is it to be fully alive? So many settle for something less – satisfied with
the trinkets of wealth and status. But Dostoyevsky or Lawrence search through
their many pages for what it is that makes a person truly alive. Migrants risk
everything to “have a better life.” They flee from the grinding poverty or oppression
of their own countries in the hope that they will be welcomed in another which promotes
freedom and opportunity. And even those who have these things still search.
Teresa Cox, the British MP who was killed for her political beliefs earlier
this year, was said to be “a person fully alive.”
Prayer. Lord, may
we not settle for just being alive but seek always the fullness of life which
you give. Amen.
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