Am I willing to stay alive today? Am I willing to stay sober today? Am I willing to ask for help and am I willing to be a help to another suffering alcoholic today? Have I discovered the fatal nature of my situation? What must i do, today, to stay sober? My, what power, energy, and emotion this simple statement generates in me! But it’s really all I need to know for today. “Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.’s message to the next sufferer? No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn’t care for this prospect-unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.” TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. The first seventy-five pages or so about the Christmas mystery are particularly insightful.RIGOROUS HONESTY-DAILY REFLECTION SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2014 Resolution: Lord, today by your grace I will pray Psalm 23 asking you to “restore my soul” (verse 3).įor Further Reflection: Frank Sheed’s book To Know Christ Jesus could be a great way to learn more about the one we celebrate at Christmas. I feel drawn to you do not let the evil one lead me away. Indeed, you fascinate and attract me by your humility and friendliness. Then we will have rest-his rest.Ĭonversing with Christ: Lord Jesus, I turn my eyes to you! You are the one who never disappoints me. Learn from how I live, how I am, how I love.” In order to learn from him, we have to come to him, to move toward new vistas, and take the concrete step of shouldering his yoke. When Christ says, “learn from me,” he’s telling us, “I’m not some statue carved in stone. It implies letting ourselves take a journey to new shores, to change position so that we see what we saw before, but from a new perspective. Learn from Me: This is the third time Christ says “me” or “my”: Come to me, take my yoke, learn from me. Christ wants us to take up his yoke, because then he can plow at our side, shouldering the brunt of the burden.ģ. This is the yoke of the world, and it is not good for us. ![]() But then we find that this yoke is too cumbersome, that it wounds our shoulders, that it numbs our faith. Sometimes we take up a different yoke–even one which is heavier or more irritating–because we think it is more efficient or more rational than Christ’s yoke. But then we find we cannot plow we cannot make any headway through the hard dirt of the field of our life. Take My Yoke: Sometimes we do not want to accept Christ’s yoke, finding it too burdensome. If you come to me, I will put you at peace.”Ģ. Why do you look to football games and shopping and television to satisfy you? Neither do work or school, or even family or friends, fill the God-shaped hole in your heart. Psalm 123 reminds us, “Like the eyes of a maid on the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the Lord our God.” And here it’s as if Christ says, “Come to me I’m the one who will give you rest. Come to Me: In this Gospel passage, Christ made it very clear that he himself ought to be our center of attention. In green pastures he makes me lie down to still waters he leads me he restores my soul (Psalms 23).”ġ. ![]() “The Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I lack. Help me to open my heart so that your gentle invitation can seep into my soul. Opening Prayer: Lord God, thank you for these meek and humble words. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” ![]() Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart and you will find rest for yourselves. Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr.
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