Tuesday 1 March 2022

Today is Tuesday the 1st of March, in the eighth week of Ordinary time.

Salt of the Sound sing, 'I need Thee every hour'. As we prepare to step into a new season of Lent, reflect for a moment on your own need for God…

Today's reading is from the Gospel of Mark.
Mark 10:28-31
Peter began to say to him, 'Look, we have left everything and followed you.' Jesus said, 'Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age--houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions--and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.'

What have I left behind to follow Jesus? What have I received from Jesus?
What more is Jesus asking me to lay down for the sake of the Good News?

'Many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.'
As I hear Jesus say these words what is stirring in me? I talk with Jesus about this now.

As I listen again I ponder where I might need to take a step forward… or a step back to follow Jesus more closely.
In these final moments of prayer, I thank Jesus for calling me to follow him. I recommit myself to the journey ahead.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.