Message of 10-29-15

Published: Thu, 10/29/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Thursday: October 29, 2015
Message of the Day

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.

- Jalaja Bonheim


(Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.  Jn. 12:24.)
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Lectionary Readings


ROM 8:31B-39;    PS 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-31;    LK 13:31-35


R. Save me, O Lord, in your mercy.


Do you, O GOD, my Lord, deal kindly with me for your name’s sake;

in your generous mercy rescue me;

For I am wretched and poor,

and my heart is pierced within me.


Help me, O LORD, my God;

save me, in your mercy,

And let them know that this is your hand;

that you, O LORD, have done this.


I will speak my thanks earnestly to the LORD,

and in the midst of the throng I will praise him,

For he stood at the right hand of the poor man,

to save him from those who would condemn his soul.


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Reflection on the Gospel

Jesus' prophecy is a two-edged sword, pointing to his victory over sin and death and foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem and the dire consequences for all who would reject him and his saving message. While the destruction of Jerusalem's temple was determined - it was razed by the Romans in 70 A.D. - there remained for its inhabitants a narrow open door leading to deliverance. Jesus says: I am the door; whoever enters by me will be saved (John 10:9). 

The Lord Jesus opens the way for each of us to have direct access to God who adopts us as his children and who makes his home with us. Do you make room for the Lord in your life? The Lord is knocking at the door of your heart (Revelations 3:20) and he wishes to enter into a close personal relationship with you. Receive him who is the giver of expectant faith, unwavering hope, and undying love. And long for the true home which God has prepared for you in his heavenly city, Jerusalem (Revelations 21:2-4).

"Lord Jesus, I place all my trust and hope in you. Come make your home with me and take possession of my heart and will that I may wholly desire what is pleasing to you. Fill my heart with love and mercy for others that I may boldly witness to the truth and joy of the gospel through word and example, both to those who accept it and to those who oppose it."

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Spiritual Reading


The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous


That all bodily thing is subject unto ghostly thing, and is ruled thereafter by the course of nature and not contrariwise.


And therefore be wary that thou conceive not bodily that which is meant ghostly, although it be spoken in bodily words, as be these, up or down, in or out, behind or before, on one side or on other. For although that a thing be never so ghostly in itself, nevertheless yet if it shall be spoken of, since it so is that speech is a bodily work wrought with the tongue, the which is an instrument of the body, it behoveth always be spoken in bodily words. But what thereof? Shall it therefore be taken and conceived bodily? Nay, but ghostly, as it be meant.


- Chapter 61
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