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Daily Prayer

August 14th, 2010

“Little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them.”
Matt 19:13

Jean Vanier says that “in children and young people a light is present. They are people in whom the light of God exists.” Jesus wanted little children to come to him because he loved them and because they have the kind of attitude needed to approach God. The receptiveness of little children was in stark contrast to the stubbornness of the religious leaders who let their learning and sophistication stand in the way of the simple faith needed to believe in Jesus. Children are spontaneous in love, risking everything, dreaming with no restrictions on hope. “To such as these the kingdom of God belongs.” The disciples scolded the parents who brought their children to Jesus that he might bless them. Jesus is unique among ancient religious and philosophical teachers in receiving children as significant. His disciples were not prepared for this.

Children will never be able to trust themselves unless someone trusts them.

Prayer


Lord, I ask for a childlike confidence in you, that I may trust you always to give me what is best for myself and for those I love

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Just a Thought

Hope

John XXIII, referred to as the ‘caretaker Pope’, realising the widening gap between the Church and the world of his day, wrote: “An old world is disappearing. Another one is being formed, and with this I am trying to conceal some good seed or other that will have its springtime, even if it is somewhat delayed, and comes after I’m dead.”

Thomas Merton writes: “One must not give in to defeatism and despair: just as one must hope for life in a mortal illness which has been declared incurable.”

Even when dark clouds surround us, even when everything appears to be falling apart, we must continue to believe for a better future. Whatever the problem, there is a way forward.

So, my hope is in God alone because I believe in him; this is my faith. It is in him I put my faith and that faith, my belief in God’s love for me and all his creation, is the bedrock in which like an anchor, I put my hope. Together with that hope and faith is my love and fidelity in responding to that God in whom I live and move and have my being. In him I place my hope.

“Hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul” (Heb 6:15-19).

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