LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY

PRAYER PAUSE        

Monday, 26 June 2017

LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Leave your country, your family and your father’s house, for the land I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1-9)

Reflection. We cannot hear this invitation – or command – often enough! Abraham was called out of his security in the land of Ur and led out “without knowing where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8). In one way or another we “leave home” and set out. Our problem is that we build new “homes” along the way and lose out ability to “set out”. As someone once said, our “get up and go has got up and gone!” Our readings from Genesis over the next few days help us to renew the constant call of God to us never to be satisfied or “set in our ways”, but always open, listening, attentive to new ideas, new people, new horizons.  

Prayer. Lord, keep or hearts attentive to your coming each day, each moment. Amen