SHE PONDERED ALL THESE THINGS

PRAYER PAUSE

Tuesday 1 January 2019

SHE PONDERED ALL THESE THINGS

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading.  “As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:16-21)

Reflection.  The birds around my window seem to be extra feverish this New Year’s morning.  Do they too sense that a New Year is a moment to begin again, to start to live in a new way?  Eight days after Christmas we too ponder what it all means; that God “was born of a woman” (Galatians 4:4).  It took 400 years for us to come up with a title for the woman: Mary is the Mother of God, (Council of Ephesus 431).  It takes some pondering for it to sink in that God has bridged the divide between the divine and human.  We are invited to walk across that bridge this New Year in our own “feverish activity” and let the divine light into our own lives.  What does this mean?  Well, it is to ponder each day how I am welcoming the guidance of the Spirit.  Do I allow his “sound of silence” (2 Kings 19:12) to change my way of thinking?

Prayer.  Lord, help us to enter this New Year with joy and hope.  Help us to be attentive to the silence in which you speak to us.  May Mary, your Mother and Mother of all who know you, draw us closer to you. Amen.