A PLACE OF REST

PRAYER PAUSE

Friday 13 January 2017

A PLACE OF REST

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “We must therefore do everything we can to reach this place of rest.” (Hebrews :1…11)

Reflection. The author of Hebrews continues to use Psalm 94 (95) and this time to speak of “the place of rest.” He refers, it seems to me, first of all to the final rest when we pass from this life to the next. There will be no time limit to our “vacation.” In fact time itself won’t exist. But also he is referring to the taste of this final rest that we can enjoy even now. There is much stress in people’s lives today but, and I know thi is easy to say, there is really no need for us to give in to stress. We may get tired and driven by the demands of our work. But it is still possible, or am I dreaming, to develop an attitude of “rest” in which we have times of standing back from it all snd pausing for some moments “in the Lord.”.

Prayer. Lord, teach us what it is to “rest” even now, in you. Amen