Sunday, 30 March 2025

Lent 23 - Trusts

Blind Girl by John Everett Millais
Credit : Wikipedia and Birmingham City Art Gallery

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.“This, then, is how you should pray:

‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’  Matthew 6

We remember the days when we used to play the trust game.  I fell backwards, and the young people I am with caught me (or didn't).   I felt a twinge of that when I stepped out of the small Cesena aeroplane in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to freefall for about 100 meters before the parachute cord was pulled.  It was supposed to have been my job to do that, but I forgot.  It was done by my instructor, and perhaps this is like the love we experience from our Creator.  We don't have to ask.  Like the instructor,  I am strapped to the one who is always with me as I freefall though life.

PRAYER: Thank you that language is not needed.  You just know.


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