loving and telling

Opening Prayer: O Lord, help us always to love you for who you are, and not merely for what we can get out of it. And as we open our mouths to tell others about that love, may it always flow from a place of deep inner reality.  All because of Jesus, in whose name we pray.  Amen.

Scripture: Matthew 7:21-23

Journal: Is what you tell people about God true in your heart and in your life?

Reflection: Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only what they say about Him.  For it doesn’t stop at being interested in paint, you know.  They sink lower—become interested in their own personalities and then nothing but their own reputations. (The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis)

Prayer

Closing Prayer: Help us never, O God, to love the telling, more than we love you.  That would be such a tragedy.  Amen.