Reflection at Eucharist 10/26/20

Reflection at Eucharist 10/26/20

From  Give us This Day booklet

By Sr Miriam Pollard, OCSO

The woman was completely bent. Completely. Not just a little bit, but totally unable to stand up straight.

Each of us is to some extent that bent woman. Each of us can spend our lives looking at mud puddles, mourning the tragedies and sins of human life, wanting what we have not been given, resenting what we have been given, afraid of what we will be given. Creating a whole world of negativity.

God knows there is enough to be negative about, but faith means that we can see through the darkness into the core of light within. And faith says, “believe in it. See it. Bathe in it. Spend prayer time knowing it is there. Find it. Stretch yourself into it.”

These things: these transient, small and insignificant things. Compared to the weight of glory they are the several doors. Doors to the joys, the serene and heart-stopping happiness that will steal in and saturate body and soul and spirit, world without end. Amen