Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Wednesday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Early To Rise
At the dawn prayer, while I was meditating, I saw again the penetrating glance of the Lord’s eyes. (Elizabeth) (January 14, 1963)
Today’s Readings: Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. Simon and those who were with him pursued him and on finding him said, “Everyone is looking for you.” He told them, “Let us go on to the nearby villages that I may preach there also.(Mark 1)
Prayer Meditation Lord, You spent Yourself every day doing good during Your Public Ministry but You never failed to rest and to take time for prayer even if it meant getting up before everybody else. Lord, we all need our deserted places where we can pray each day- it can be just a small corner of a room but we need to go there each day and meditate on Your Word and pray, even for five minutes. Because guess what, it will not be long into the day that we will not hear from someone, “everyone is looking for you”. A spouse who lost something, a child who forgot to finish their homework and has to meet a bus while the baby needs to be fed, a client who emails at all hours and expects an immediate response, a job that needs us there on time and ready to go- you name it the world expects us to hit the ground running. Lord help us to imitate You each day and take time to pray and charge our batteries in the Silence of Your Sacred Heart so that when it is time to work we can like You say let us go on to the nearby villages! Lord Jesus think in our thinking, speak in our speaking, work in our working!
