Lenten Word 5: Reflection

In our hurried and harried world, we don't make time to just sit and think. This is what reflection is. What helps our reflection is to sit quietly and listen. The best time for reflection, especially during Lent, is just after our prayer time or scripture reading. Reflection allows for the words we have shared with God in our prayers or that God shared with us during scripture reading sink in deep to our souls. What did we say in praise of God and what does it mean? What did we read that we had not seen before and what was the blessing in having read that particular passage?

Reflection is to allow God to continue speaking to us. We don't have all the answers and sometimes we don't have any answers at all; but God does. We listen and we receive what we need.

I read where a Christian young man posted that he was getting a divorce and I read that blog. He was divorcing not his wife, but his iPhone. He said it consumed too much of his life. On Facebook we've seen where people have given up FB for Lent. A wise move until you realize that for many of us, FB has given us insight on prayer needs. One person said, "I've never prayed so much until I got on Facebook!" But can we really have too much of a "good thing?" Yes. We need our quiet time. Jesus sought places where He could be alone, and so should we.

PRAYER: Loving God, Elijah found You in the quiet, so may we. May we seek times and places where we can truly hear what You have to share with us and no one else. This we pray in the name of He who sought You always, Jesus our Lord, amen.