Good morning…
God says, “I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
“‘Choose life.’ That’s God’s call for us, and there is not a moment in which we do not have to make that choice. Life and death are always before us. In our imaginations, our thoughts, our words, our gestures, our actions … even in our non-actions. This choice for life starts in a deep interior place. Underneath very life-affirming behaviour I can still harbour death-thoughts and death-feelings. The most important question is not ‘Do I kill?’ but ‘Do I carry a blessing in my heart or a curse?’ The bullet that kills is only the final instrument of the hatred that began being nurtured in the heart long before the gun was picked up.” (Henri Nouwen’s 8.30.16 meditation)
On this very morning fifteen years ago, the “guns” picked up were airplanes and many ordinary people were killed. In response to our world’s hateful unrest, we each must ask: “In my deep, interior place do I carry a blessing or a curse?”
Jesus explains: The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] (John 10:10, AMP),
…Sue…
