PRAYER PAUSE
Friday 29 December 2017, Thomas
á Becket
THE
NIGHT IS OVER
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “The night is over and the
real light is already shining..” (1 John
2:3-11)
Reflection. The Old Testament book of Qoheleth
saw all as “futiulity and chasing after the wind” (4:4). It is a pessimistic
treatise with the recurring refrain, “All is vanity!” And indeed life is monotonous
if one has no other perspective except “There is nothing new under the sun”
(1:9). Christmas has changed all that and the early Church knew it. There was a
lightness in their step when the disciples returned from Emmaus to Jerusalem. “The
real light is shining.” But, like our constant companion, the sun, that light has
to battle to seek out the corners of my own life, and the life we all share in
our world, which are still covered by the “shadow of darkness” – a darkness dispersed
on Christmas night (Isaiah 9:2).
Prayer. Lord, help us to allow your
light to shine in the “encircling gloom”. May we welcome its piercing rays as
it shows up the recesses where we hide from truth. Amen.
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