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February 8

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Reflection

In our prayer, we seek to encounter the Presence of God. We tend to think of the God who is Mystery as somewhere beyond us, a goal to be reached by our own efforts. Yet, God is with us always. Our task is not to search for the God beyond but to become aware of the Mystery which sustains us, which is the unconditional gift of life and of love. God’s presence is the source of all being, of our being. That will not change no matter what we do. What can change is our awareness of that and the effect it will have on our living and our peace of heart.

Prayer

Fear not, for I am with you.
Isaiah 41:10

Action

Explore your image of God? What does it mean to you when you think of God as within, of God as the One who holds all things in being?

Suggested Reading

God is love and if you live in love, you live in God and God lives in you.
John 4:16

For in God we live, and move, and have our being.
Acts 17:28

Today too humanity constructs images of God that prevent us from appreciating God’s real presence.
Pope Francis

God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.”
Elizabeth A. Johnson

We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.
Richard Rohr 

To say “I believe in God” means that I commit myself to make God a presence in the center of my heart, in the humdrum of my days, in the dregs of my struggles. Discovering the way God works in each of those is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. It is the ultimate spiritual task. It is the quest for the Holy Grail that is buried in recesses of my own life.
Joan Chittister

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, God loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God’s love encompasses us completely. … God loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that God should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at God’s love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
Brennan Manning

People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.
Pearl Bailey

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul Richter