Message of 9-1-15

Published: Tue, 09/01/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Tuesday: September 1, 2015
Message of the Day

When my enemies chase me down,
I run to Your arms,
where I can complain about my suffering
and You listen and incline Yourself to me.

You know exactly how to strum
the strings of my soul.
- Mecthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead

(What kinds of enemies of love and peace have been wearing you down lately? Complain to God about these things, and turn them over to God's care, then rest in God's loving awareness of you.)

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Daily Readings
 

1 THES 5:1-6, 9-11;    PS 27:1, 4, 13-14;    LK 4:31-37


R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.


The LORD is my light and my salvation;

whom should I fear?

The LORD is my life’s refuge;

of whom should I be afraid?


One thing I ask of the LORD;

this I seek:

To dwell in the house of the LORD

all the days of my life,

That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD

and contemplate his temple.


I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD

in the land of the living.

Wait for the LORD with courage;

be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.


USCCB Lectionary
 Reflection on the Scriptures
 
“A great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people.” Jesus was not one of the established Jewish Authority figures nor a part of the Jewish Leadership team and no doubt, many were confused and possibly even frightened by his parables and “new ways of thinking.” Following the Gospel lessons can also be challenging to us but we must remember and be assured that God, through his examples and words, will be our guide in how we relate to and love others- even those that seem to possess an unclean demon.   God seems to be encouraging us, giving us an invitation to “pay attention” to what moves our hearts, whose words we are drawn to and feel we can trust, and whose words feel like a rejection, or untruth. Our challenge is to be true to God’s truth and to be confident in calling out the untruths that surround us in life, so as to find God in all things and proceed accordingly, in order to “build one another up and gain salvation.”  
- by Marcia Shadle-Cusic
 

Creighton Online Ministries

SPIRITUAL READING

 

Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich

   
Chapter 5

“God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself;—only in Thee I have all”


IN this same time our Lord shewed me a spiritual sight of His homely loving.


It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade. For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us. And this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made nought as to all things that are made. When it is willingly made nought, for love, to have Him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest.


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