PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 9 May 2018
FEELING
THEIR WAY
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “And he did this so that all nations might
seek the deity and, by feeling their way towards him, succeed in finding him.”
(Acts 17:15…18:1)
Reflection. Paul addresses the
Athenians, not by starting with a Jewish introduction, but by recognising the
value of their rational searching for “the Unknown God”. He holds their attention while he develops
this theme but when he begins to speak of Jesus and the essential breakthrough Jesus
made by rising from the dead they lose him. They cannot follow him in making their
own breakthrough to faith. They are too
rooted in their philosophy. Paul leaves
them and moves on to Corinth. It is a unique moment when Paul enters by their
door but they fail to come out through his.
It can happen that we too pursue a search for meaning but then get tired
and turn away. Take dreams, for example; they have been called “the royal road
to the unconscious”. Yet I know for
myself I have not taken that road. Yet
it is important we be not only in touch with our conscious self but also what
is unconscious in us.
Prayer. Lord, help us walk those
roads we would prefer not to travel.but which could help us reach you more
wholesomely Amen
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