Scripture: Luke 10:38-42
Journal: What are the many
things that are worrying you today?
How is that distracting you from the one thing? What does Jesus want you to hear today?
Reflection:
One of the greatest temptations of the
spiritual life is to pay attention to the many things rather than the one
thing. That is because the many
things are often good things, in and of themselves, they are just not the best
thing. And we are so easily distracted,
it seems, by the urgent, at the expense of the important.
That is why we must make
time and space each day to sit at the feet of Jesus and listen to what he has
to say. That is why we must start by
stopping; in order to remind ourselves of what is important and what is merely
urgent, what is essential and what is tangential, what is focal and what is
peripheral. It is the only way we will
really have a chance of living the life God most deeply wants to live in and
through us.
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Lord Jesus, why do I allow myself to get so
worried and distracted by the many things, when only one thing
really matters—you. Help me to choose
the one thing today—to sit at your feet and listen to what you have to
say. Amen.
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