Friday, 18 November 2016

ALL ARE ALIVE

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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