Daily Prayer
July 27th, 2010
"In each of us the Father sees reflected the face of His Son : so we too should see Christ in each other"
Cardinal Basil Hume OSB
Jesus brought us a dream of a new heaven and a new earth, a new way of seeing God’s creation. He spoke of the beauty of the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. St. Francis of Assissi called these his brothers and sisters. He saw God in them because they like us are created by God.
“Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.” Joyce Kilmer. God is present in all life in the universe, not just in us human beings. The God who loves us continues to shape and fashion us for we are co-creatos with God in this wonderful universe. All that is and all that has been is part of us for there is nothing in God’s creation to which we are not connected. The good we do like a pebble dropped in the pond has its repercussions and affects everything and everyone in our universe.
“We are born afresh in Christ and born to do those good deeds which God planned for us to do” St. Paul to the Eph. 2 : 10
Prayer
I bring to you Father all your children for we are all one in you. God of mercy and compassion be with your people especially those who are sick and suffering and have lost hope in life. Amen.
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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).
