trust, saturday

Saturday, October 25

Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.

         

Opening Prayer:     O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of your presence, your love, and your strength.  Help us to have perfect trust in your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to you, we shall see your hand, your purpose, your will through all things.

                                                                              ~St. Ignatius

Scripture Reading for the Day: Matthew 6:25-34

Reading for Reflection:

 

Even in the midst of your suffering you are in his kingdom.  You are always his children, and he has his protecting arm around you…Don’t ask why; don’t try to understand.  Does a child understand everything his father does?  Can he comprehend parental wisdom?  No—but he can confidently nestle in his father’s arms and feel perfect happiness, even while the tears glisten in his eyes, because he is his father’s child (Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer)

Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself

                                   
Closing Prayer: Lord, when I am tempted to look at circumstances, and allow them to determine how I live my days, turn my heart and my mind toward you and allow me to consider the lilies of the field and the birds of the air and to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if you feed the birds of the air and clothe the lilies of the field, you will most certainly care for me, your beloved.  Amen.