PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 25 October 2017
HAPPY
THAT SERVANT
Pause. Enter into the stillness
of God within.
Reading: “Happy that servant if his
master’s arrival finds her at this employement.” (Luke 12:39-48)
Reflection. I was shocked and saddened yesterday
to hear of the cruel murder of a teacher who had gone to Mutemwa, the
settlement in NE Zimbabwe where people living with leprosy and other disabilities
are cared for. She had gone to plan a pilgrimage for her students and went up the
mountain to pray and there she was attacked and raped. She resisted her
attacker and this seems to have enraged him and he killed her and threw her
body in the nearby dam. I knew her a little – enough to know she was a
beautiful person, centred on God and the task he gave her in life and she used
her gift of singing to give joy to many hearts. Now, I believe she is happy in
the sense of the gospel, though it will take much time for her family, friends
and students to experience the consolation of her victory. We pray too for her
murderer that he too may find healing one day.
Prayer. Lord, we pray that you
will find us attentive to our tasks when you come each day and we pray for our
teacher whose young life was so abruptly snatched from her; and for the one who
did the snatching. Amen.
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