NOT KNOWING

PRAYER PAUSE

Saturday 28 January 2017, Thomas Aquinas

NOT KNOWING

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Abraham set out without knowing where he was going.” (Hebrews 11:1 …19)

Reflection. “Our father in faith.” That is Abraham’s title and Jews, Christians and Muslims can say it. Abraham “set out” as we all do in one way or another, to start a career, to find work, to marry or to devote ourselves in other ways. This “setting out without knowing”, this unpredictability, is what it is to be human. We don’t know. That is the great risk we find written in our genes. Life is testing limits, exploring, trusting. We can see it as exciting. Though do not say that to one in real prison or in prison to poverty or stigmatised because of who they are, Yet Abraham lays down the default position for us all.   

Prayer. Lord, teach us the faith of Abraham – and of Mary. Amen