Lent, Day Fifty-Four, Second Easter Sunday

 

Lent, Day Fifty-Four, Second Easter Sunday
LISTEN TO YOUR HEARTI

It's there [in your heart] that Jesus speaks most intimately to you. Praying is first and foremost listening to Jesus who dwells in the very depths of your heart. He doesn't shout. He doesn't thrust himself upon you. His voice is an unassuming voice, very nearly a whisper, the voice of a gentle love. Whatever you do with your life, go on listening to the voice of Jesus in your heart. This listening must be an active and very attentive listening, for in our restless and noisy world Jesus' loving voice is easily drowned
out.

Henri J.M. Nouwen
Letters to Marc About Jesus, pg 109

Scripture:
³⁷ On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” ³⁹ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.JOHN 7:37-39

PRAYER 

Glorious God, I remember how Moses parted the waters of the Red Sea in order to save the Israelites, I remember how Christ walked on water on the Sea of Galilee, I say with the psalmist, "I truly am thirsty for you, my God." Let these examples and all the oceans, lakes, rivers, creeks, and streams remind me of the goodness of your grace. Amen.

EASTER ACTION
Practice attentive "listening" to your own thoughts. Challenge each and every unkind and angry thought that contaminates your mind.