Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 20
It is never the amount of prayer that is important, though if you have more time to pray use it, it is ensuring that time for prayer however short, is set aside.
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Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 18
If we do not pray we have no food for the journey, no strength for the service and no courage to help endure the sacrifice.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 17
In a time when, for a season, we can’t enter our churches, the call to ‘pray without ceasing’ reminds us that prayer is not only about holy words in holy places but a yielding of our whole life to the One Who Loves us Best
Are You Listening?
Lockdown, locked-up, or enfolded?
There are so many voices to confuse us yet if we shut them all out we are even more isolated.
What if we transformed this lockdown into the gift of being safely enfolded with the Good Shepherd when we can listen intently to His words of love and comfort.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 16
There are so many calls on our life and finding a good balance is difficult. As our pilgrimage continues we will need to emphasise some activities over others, but in so doing we must careful to not neglect any of the good things which help our journey homeward.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 15
Thos of use who are not called to literal poverty can sometimes feel as if we have been lumbered with our possessions and the only way to work with them is to deny them. But if we learn to ‘sit lightly’ to them we can begin to see the goods we have as gifts for the furthering of the Gospel.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 14
Those who have more than enough of this world’s goods face the challenge of how much they should give away and how much they should keep for their own well-being. Tithing and other formulae for giving are unequal and still leave us in thrall to our possessions. What is needed is a generous heart alongside an open pocketbook.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 13
Working with posessions is hard. We want to hold on to ‘things’ in the mistaken idea that they will make us more valuable. We are not valuable because of what we hold in our hands but because of whose hand holds us.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 12
The Rule of St Francis was revolutionary in that it took the words of Jesus seriously and they sought to live ‘sine proprio’ without possessions. We however live with them and must be careful how we use them for fear that they may use us.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 11
Can privilege and wealth ever be used in the service of Righteousness?
Francis was a Rich Young Ruler who showed us a way of using all that we have to serve all those whom God loves.
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