Read the scriptures for Saturday Week Three in Easter at this link.
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A few years ago I discovered the wonderful way that God uses my imagination in my prayer.
Such openness to imagination when seeking God does not take us away from reality into fantasy but instead brings me into what is most real and inescapably personal and intimate.
A couple of thousand years ago, a young Jewish woman was going about her normal morning routines, perhaps with a mixture of house and garden work, chatting with parents and neighbours, aware of the local drought, the sickness of a neighbour and annoyed by the neighbourhood’s lack of sleep caused by the Romans’ noisy party the night before, when God broke into her routine and entered her life in a new and powerful way.
Over the last month I have had the opportunity to work with many people across Aotearoa and further afield. In every retreat and seminar I have been with committed and faith-filled people who often feel as though they are on the periphery of the Church
It’s easy to make the mistake of seeing life as a treadmill, day after day ups and downs, a movement through time from youth to old age, then death and beyond.
Too often if feels as if we are helplessly captive carried along by the momentum of all that is expected of us and demanded from us, and we risk falling into an existence mode, a daily rhythm of survival, enduring, coping and so the treadmill rolls on.
Over the years, and even in recent months, weeks and days, I’ve prayed many prayers which have not been answered as I had hoped.
You’ve probably had the same experience: praying and wondering if and when or how your prayer will be answered.
7.5.22
Thank you Fr John for this spiritual guidance, much appreciated. I have struck gold today after listening to this lectio divina. After 19 years of leaving Mercy Sisters (Christchurch) one of the things I missed most was 6/8 days annual retreat. Today, I have found it again, and it’s gold! yeah. I feel I was transported back to retreat settings, for the 25 years of my early life I have experienced those sacred moments. Heavenly!! Now, living in my little apartment, daily I will listen to lectio divina and do my meditation, and carry on with life. Semi-retired, I’m enjoying the freedom I have to do what I need to do; enjoy simplicity of life and have a good laugh at some of the silly things I humanly do at times. Amen, Alleluia! Again, thanks for the FFF programme that saves us in this digital age. Kind regards, Marina