Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 3/5

         Mount Tabor: perhaps climbed by Jesus and his friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,
and led them up a high mountain by themselves...

 

That's how today's gospel begins, Lord

and I'm wondering how that day started...

    Did you wake your friends early

        and tell them they were going on a hike?

    Did they  come along willingly

        or try to talk you out of it?

    Did they ask the reason for the climb

        - and how did you answer them? 

And how might I have responded

    had I been there with Peter, James and John?

Would I have jumped at the chance

    to spend the day with you?

Or would I have begged off,

    claiming to be too busy to join you?

Would I have trusted you

    and gone with the flow

or hung back, trailing behind,

    not sure of what might lie ahead?

Would I have finished the climb

    and rested with you on the mountain top?

And how would I have responded

    had you shown me yourself more fully

        than ever before I had known you?

Would I have been in awe or fearful?

    confused or grateful?  overcome or elated?

If I, like your friends, became frightened

    would I have trusted when you told me

        to not be afraid?

And when you spoke of rising from the dead:

    would I have understood?

    would I have believed?

    would I have found hope in your words?

Interesting questions!

But not nearly as interesting as these, Lord:

    When you wake me this morning

        will I get up and follow where you lead me?

    As this day goes by will I stay by your side,

        no matter how steep the path we walk?

    Will I take time today, to rest with you,

        in prayer, in silence, just the two of us?

    Will I open my heart to your presence now

        when you invite me to know you more fully?

    Will I trust, day and night, and not be afraid

        of all and whatever may come my way?

    In the hardest of times will my faith assure me

        that with you I can rise above all my fears,

            that with you I can rise from death?

 

I don't know where  your Spirit will lead me today,

    I don't know, Lord, what heights we may scale.

I don't know how I'll need to trust you today

    or if I'll be tempted to run from your side.

I don't know how today you'll show me your mercy

    or call and command me to live by your word.

But I know you'll be there, all day and all night,

   to raise me up in your saving arms...

 

Be with me today, Lord,

    and give me the strength and faith I need

        to follow where you call me...

 

Amen.  

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