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Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Imaginative Contemplation or Lectio Divina
Stilling: Come into the presence of God and still yourself
Grace: That called by the Risen Lord we will stretch and grow in joy, gratitude and a desire for self giving love.
Prayer Suggestion: Notice any word, phrase or image that strikes you in the scripture passage or poem. Meditate with it and let it draw you into prayer.
You may also like to imagine you are one of the disciples listening to Jesus.
John 15:15-17 HCSB
John 15:15-17 HCSB
Love one Another
Love one Another
I do not call you slaves anymore,
because a slave doesn’t know what the master is doing.
I have called you friends,
because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you.
I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in My name,
He will give you.
This is what I command you: Love one another.
Conversation: What might the fruit look like that God wants to grow in you and through you? Imagine what it looks like, smells like, tastes like. Notice God delighting and enjoying the fruit.
Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father
A Thought for the Day
A Thought for the Day
Love can come in many forms. Sometimes it can be slow, subtle and indirect, building quietly without anyone else even suspecting. Sometimes it can come at you.
It is always astonishing how love can strike. No context is love-proof. Even a lifestyle which is perfectly insulated, where the personality is controlled, all the days ordered and in sequence, can to its dismay find that an unexpected spark has landed; it begins to smoulder until it is finally unquenchable. God always disturbs, in the concealed terrain of the human heart God remains a light sleeper.
( adapted from John O´Donohue, Divine Beauty, p.151)
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