IT IS WHAT COMES OUT

PRAYER PAUSE

Wednesday 8 February 2017, Josephine Bakhita

IT IS WHAT COMES OUT

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “It is what comes out of a person that makes them unclean. For it is from within, from people’s hearts, that evil intentions emerge.” (Mark 7:14-23)

Reflection. The tree in the Garden of Eden is a parable of choice. There was apainful story on the news last night of a girl being trafficked and an alert flight attendant slipping a message to her that if she needed help she should make a sign. She did and she became free. Evil intentions and acts come from within. We can choose to do evil. And we can choose to resist evil and do good. Josephine Bakhita was young girl in Darfur, captured and sold into slavery. She was eventually rescued and is now a saint.

Prayer. Lord, strengthen our minds, our hearts, our spirits, that we may always find you and choose your way. Amen.