Scripture:
Matthew 26:36-46
Journal:
What is the cup that God has given to you to drink
lately? What does it look like to drink
it? Will you?
Reflection:
After firmly holding the cups of our lives and
lifting them up as signs of hope for others, we have to drink them.
Drinking our cups means fully appropriating and internalizing what each of us
has acknowledged as our life, with all its unique sorrows and joys.
How do we drink our cups? We drink them
as we listen in the silence to the truth of our lives, as we speak in trust
with friends about ways we want to grow, and as we act in deeds of
service. Drinking our cups is following freely and courageously
God's call and staying faithfully on the path that is ours. Thus, our
life becomes the cup of salvation. When we have emptied them to the
bottom, God will fill them with "water" for eternal life. (Bread
for the Journey by Henri Nouwen)
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Lord, you are my portion and my cup; you make
my lot secure. The boundary lines have
fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. (Psalm 16:5-6)
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