Tuesday, 13 February 2018

THE FAVOURABLE TIME


PRAYER PAUSE  


Ash Wednesday 14 February 2018


THE FAVOURABLE TIME


Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation.” (2 Cor 5:20-6:2)




Reflection. Joel blows the opening whistle for Lent (2:12-18) with his call for Isreal to “come back to me with all your heart.” It is an invitation, a call, to conversion. We may not feel, as we enter Lent, that we need to “turn back” since we have never left the Lord. That may be true for many but Lent is also for those who may have left the Lord and we join in solidarity with them as they seek the way back. But even for those of us who consider we are regular in our prayer and Chrsistian living there is a call to go deeper. We cannot rest and say “we know the Lord.”  The call comes to us too to allow Jesus to penetrate our hearts and lives. We want explore how this can be.   


Prayer. Lord, help us to enter Lent with a generous heart; to search for you in our lives, to seek out those corners where we do not allow you to enter. Amen.





































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