PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 26 November 2016
STAND WITH
CONFIDENCE
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “That day will be sprung on you
suddenly, like a trap. For it will come on every living person on the face of
the earth. Stay awake, praying at all time … and stand with confidence.” (Luke
21:34-36)
Reflection. All the warnings, towards the end of
the gospel, about being awake, do not mean we have to stand around like police ready
to hold up the traffic when the President is passing. It is not that kind of
waiting. It calls for another type of alertness. “That day” is every day
because at every moment there is a decision to be made calling for attention,
being awake. The last days of the year is just a good time to alert us as they
evoke the end of the world but they are not, primarily, about the end of the
world – but the present moment.
Prayer. Lord, teach
us what it is to be alert at every moment, attentive like a bird to every movement
around and within us. Amen.
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