Tuesday 7th April Message
Dear Reader,
As we continue with our daily thoughts we remember all who are suffering directly and indirectly from the Coronavirus. We remember them in our prayers. Particularly we pray for our Prime Minister in hospital and all our politicians in their daily tasks in these unfamiliar and difficult times
My purpose in sending you these ‘Daily Thoughts’ is to help keep a sense of continuity and togetherness in our current separation and hopefully, we will all be more appreciative and stronger in time.
My thoughts too are for our families. Especially our little ones not fully aware of the crisis in our world. I feel for our children separated from their pals at school, loving grandparents missing the company of their little darlings, teenagers who need and thrive in each others’ company and missing their friends.
Our young folk thankfully are able to teach us former teenagers, the intricacies of social media that we have come to rely on so much. What would we do without it? We all need one another and keeping in touch is vital. Every one of us misses someone and we all feel and share the effects of this temporary separation.
Our children have much to teach us. In their simplicity and innocence, they are able to see things in an uncomplicated way, and it is refreshing to hear and watch them deal with matters that we adults at times ‘overthink’ and complicate.
The disciples argued about who was greatest. Pride of place and position is a common source of tension and it was this that troubled them. It was a child in their midst that taught a lesson. Children, dependent, powerless and vulnerable. What can we learn from them? Sadly for some, they learn from adults, quite apart from their schooling, prejudice, and hatred.
Jesus used a child to teach his disciples a lesson. As we teach our children what might we learn from them today?
Today I ask you to think/meditate on these things
God bless you!
Jim
LUKE 9: 46-48
An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him. Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”
Recommended Posts
Thought for the day – Sunday 21 June
June 21, 2020
Thought for the day – Saturday 20 June
June 20, 2020
Thought for the day – Wednesday 17 June
June 17, 2020