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Prayer
Christ,
Free us from the tyranny of rightness,
That we might serve one another in love.
Amen.
Scripture: Romans 8.15 (NRSV)
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!’’ …
Comments
Once a church member came to her pastor, “Pastor,” she asked, “why is it that though I have worked hard to be right in my beliefs and morals, I still feel something lacking in my relationship with God?” Replied the Pastor, “Ma’am, because your determination to be right is exactly what is keeping you from a close relationship with God?”
Once a pastor stunned his parishioners when they were arguing who was right and wrong on an important theological matter. He said, “Brothers and sisters, when in the Scripture did Jesus ever say anything like ‘Blessed are those who are right’?”
Spirituality is intimacy of Love, not being right as against someone being wrong. The relating among the Three Persons of the Trinity is Love, for there is inner-relating among the Three.
Choose Love, so that you can see in Love those whom you disagree with. In Love be free of felt necessity to be right in all things. To have to be always right is to block Grace, which is an expression of unconditional, playful, and creative Love.
Reflection
Look up “Abba.” What does it mean?
Do you enjoy intimacy with the Sacred? Explain. What does “the Sacred” mean to you?
What in the above writing challenged your present thinking? Explain.
What did you find encouraging? Explain.
Spiritual Exercise
Keep spending at least twenty to thirty minutes daily in Silence, resting in the Lord of Love.
Explore the website www.sacredspace.ie offered by the Irish Jesuits and do some of the meditation exercises offered at the site.
Consider, if you are not already, sponsoring a child through Compassion International. You can find out more about Compassion International by going to www.compassion.net to read about sponsoring, in the name of Jesus, children living in poverty. Thanks! Brian K. Wilcox
To contact Brian, write briankwilcox@comcast.net .
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