PRAYER PAUSE
Thursday 30 March 2017
HOW
HEADSTRONG THEY ARE
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I can see how headstrong these
people are! Leave me, now, my wrath will blaze out against them and devour them.”
(Exodus 32:7-14)
Reflection. Ignatius of Loyola tells us, “it is
characteristic of the evil spirit to harass with anxiety, to afflict with
sadness, to raise obstacles backed by fallacious reasonings that disturb the soul.”
The Israelites had their reasons for fashioning a golden calf and they acted on
them. They did not listen to their heart which would have told them of God’s
love and care for them despite their present sufferings. They listened only to
their head which told them Moses led them away from the fleshpots of Egypt to
die in the desert. All the evidence backed up their reasoning. But, as Pascal
once said, the heart has reasons the head knows nothing of.
Prayer. Lord, teach us to listen to you
in our heart as well as ourselves in our heads. Amen.
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