Theme: Choosing Life

 READING  :  Deuteronomy 30 : 15, 19 -20

Moses said to the people, “See today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster…… I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him ;  for in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob he would give them.”

REFLECTION

The Israelites received this message from Moses whilst they were on a journey. Lent is a journey for us Christians and we too are being urged to choose life. Urging us to choose life seems a bit unnecessary. Who in their right mind would want to choose death ?   However, if we pause to reflect on the choices we make in our daily lives we might see that many of them are not life-giving at all, either to ourselves or to others.

How do I bring life to others in my community, in my place of ministry ?   Do I bring Good news to other people’s lives ?   What gives me life ?   Am I in any way spoiling life in my community or in my place of ministry  ?   Do I make any choices which deaden myself or others  ?

PRAYER

God, source of all life, your son Jesus came amongst us that we might have life and have it to the full. Release us from our imprisoning fears and from every form of self-preoccupation which robs us of the gift of wonder at the miracles of your creation and blinds us to you present in all things and in all people. Through our fidelity to this Lenten journey may we be bearers of your light and life to all whose lives we touch. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 Br. John Mc Court (Zambia)