Monday 25th June, 2012
2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15, 18. Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us—Ps 59(60):3-5, 12-13. Matthew 7:1-5.

  
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Father, in many ways, I am like the Israelites described in the first reading.

How often I forget your love for me and go my own way. Often I am attracted by the glamour of the things around me. Often I place the ‘I’ before our relationship—it is I who will do good; it is I who will get things done. Before I know it, I have turned in on myself, and life becomes an empty series of events.

Yet, when I am moved to repentance and return to you, I find a willingness on your part to bless me and open me to the higher things of life. On that level, I find I am not judging things people do, but, rather, moved by love, I am present to their needs and feelings as they make mistakes, as I myself so often do.