Reflection
The word of God is a dynamic, impacting, powerful word that is God’s truth penetrating our minds and hearts. It is active and unfolding. If we are attentive and open, the Spirit, living and active within us, will cut through with power and purpose. Our attentive consciousness to the presence of God uncovers and exposes our own contradictions. We are not alone; we have a God who lives in and with us. Life without searching for God’s truth, either consciously or unconsciously, leads us to live a life that is neither complete nor at peace.
Prayer
O God, help me to be attuned to Your Presence.
Action
What is in the way of my spending quality time in meditating on God’s presence? How can I be changed, so I can learn and grow?
Suggested Reading
Brothers and sisters:
Indeed the word of God is living and effective,
sharper than any two-edged sword,
penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.
No creature is concealed from God,
but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of God.
Heb 4:12-13
Let your work be seen by your servants
and your glory by their children;
and may the gracious care of the Lord our God be ours;
prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!
Ps 90:16-17
God’s presence is not perceived with the ears, but with faith.
Pope Francis
The Spirit filters through what I want and shows me who I am.
E’yen A. Gardner
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
John R.W. Stott
The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light.
Thomas Merton
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by that truth.
Charles Stanley