PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 24 January 2017, Francis de
Sales
YOU PREPARED
A BODY FOR ME
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “You who wanted no sacrifice or oblation,
prepared a body for me.” (Hebrews 10:1-10)
Reflection. Platonism is roughly remembered as
a system of thought that divides us into body and spirit, the real and the
ideal, the material and the spiritual. It enhances the latter to the detriment
of the former. But we cannot divide ourselves in two! We experience ourselves
as body, active, energetic or tired, hungry. The spiritual – compassion, joy or
irritation, resentment - cannot be neatly separated from the body we are. The Church
has always pondered and wondered at the birth of the baby in Bethlehem. God
comes to us in a body like ours. And he worked, and goes on working, in the
human body. “He dwelt among us” and in us. We do not dwell in our bodies. We
are our bodies and that is how we live – for better or for worse.
Prayer. Lord, you
rejoice in a person fully alive. Teach us how to be such a person. Amen
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