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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Wednesday 32nd
Week of OT
St. Luke’s Institute
November 13, 2013
St. Luke’s Institute
November 13, 2013
UNGRATEFUL 9?
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Ø There’s no reason to believe
9 lepers who didn’t go back to J were just rude & ungrateful
Ø Text doesn’t say that &
would be silly 2 infer that
Ø Of course they’d be
grateful! Of course they’d felt indebted 2 Jesus!
Ø He’d transformed their lives
& restored them
Ø Rather than judging the 9 as
ungrateful, need to rejoice w/ them 4 their healing
Ø ~ Christmas morning when
children R more excited about gift than the giver
Ø And the giver understands;
his/her joy comes in their excitement
Ø The inference of an
ungrateful spirit re the 9 isn’t in the text
THE POWER OF GRATITUDE ++++++++++++++++++
Ø Why
then distinguish the 9 from the 1?
Ø What
does the gratitude of the 1 add to the gift of healing that’s received equally
by the 10?
Ø Each evening I recall
blessings of the day for which I’m grateful. That practice does 2 things for me
Ø 1st it helps me
be more sensitive to other smaller blessings I’ve received that might otherwise
go unnoticed
Ø And 2nd it helps
me actually experience the blessing in the moment that I’m receiving it, rather
than simply recalling it after it’s happened
Ø Both add to creating in me a
spirit of gratitude
Ø The 1 who returns will
experience a deeper sense of giftedness in acknowledging the giver of the gift
THE SLI RESIDENT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø There may be some who come
to SLI who are in process of healing & don’t express gratitude 2 G either
thru prayer or worship
Ø It may be a freeing thing 4 them
not 2B judged 4 that, as we refrain from judging the 9
Ø People are where they are
with their own level of gratitude or lack of it
Ø With J we begin w/ a level
of respect 4 them & what he’s doing in them in & thru us
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