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Lent - Week Four 2010
By Pat Lee | March 18, 2010
Thursday: March 18, 2010
Readings: Hosea 14:2-10 Mark 12:28-34
Scripture Verse: You shall love the Lord your God… Mark 12:30
Reflection: It has been written, “Life is change and those who have changed often are perfect.” As we know change is often difficult for Anglicans and the older we get the more trapped we can become in our patterns of life. The Chinese philosopher wrote about this when he commented on how supple and flexible infants are and how, as we age, we become stiffer and more brittle until at last we die. Life is flexibility. Death is rigidity.
The great commandment to love God above all else is a commandment directed to helping us change. Our love of neighbour cannot be understood or fulfilled without love of God. In our love of God, we begin to look at people the way God looks at them. We learn to treat them the God treats them. We learn to work with them the way God works with them. We learn to treat them with the respect and dignity they (and we) are due as people created in the image of God.
In Lent we are invited to renew our love of God and to respond to God’s love for us through treating others as God treats us. We are invited to become more flexible and to see people as God sees us.
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