Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, when you call us to follow you,
you do not give us the discretion to pick and choose when that is convenient or
comfortable. In fact, you often lead us
to places that we would rather not go.
Give us the strength and the faith and courage to follow you, all the
way, wherever you may lead us.
Amen.
Scripture: John 21:17-19
Journal: Where is God leading you to a place you would
rather not go these days?
Reflection:
Feed my sheep. Stretch out your
hands. Follow me. That is what our lives are to be about:
minister, surrender, and follow. That's it. It's not very complicated. But obviously we do complicate
it. Maybe that's because our regular default mode is not to minister,
surrender, and follow, but to feed ourselves, desperately try to control our
world, and set our own agenda. We are not much for that whole led to
where you do not want to go thing. But I guess that's where we have
to be reminded that this life is not about us, but about him. It was a
lesson the first disciples had to learn over and over again. And it is
the simple truth that Jesus was trying to teach Simon Peter in John 21, "You
only truly love me when this is what your life looks like. Otherwise, you
are just loving yourself in a clever disguise.”
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my
memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O Lord, I return it. All is Thine, dispose of it wholly according
to Thy will. Give me Thy love and thy grace, for this is sufficient for me.
~Ignatius of Loyola
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