Thursday of the First Week of Lent -- February 21, 2013
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
Matthew 7:7 – 12
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
Ask, seek, and knock relentlessly. Don’t stop. Resist the impulse to put down roots into anything you believe and any insight you have. Be continually open. Don’t build monuments to what has happened in you in the past. Stand watch for what is happening right now.
Ask. Lean into the questions. You are not trying to find the right answers. Life is not about getting the answers right. You are trying to ask the right questions, and live into them.
Seek. Keep looking. Keeping attending to what is before you. Look with openness, not shutting out any possibility. “All things are possible for those who love God.”
Knock. Try all the doors. Don’t disqualify any of them before you knock. And when a door opens, go through it. No door is the final door. Every door leads to other doors, other knockings, other thresholds. You can reduce the risk in life – and the pain – by staying where you are, never venturing through a door, never moving on. Your ego wants this kind of safety and security. You soul knows you were created for more.
Matthew 7:7 – 12
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
Ask, seek, and knock relentlessly. Don’t stop. Resist the impulse to put down roots into anything you believe and any insight you have. Be continually open. Don’t build monuments to what has happened in you in the past. Stand watch for what is happening right now.
Ask. Lean into the questions. You are not trying to find the right answers. Life is not about getting the answers right. You are trying to ask the right questions, and live into them.
Seek. Keep looking. Keeping attending to what is before you. Look with openness, not shutting out any possibility. “All things are possible for those who love God.”
Knock. Try all the doors. Don’t disqualify any of them before you knock. And when a door opens, go through it. No door is the final door. Every door leads to other doors, other knockings, other thresholds. You can reduce the risk in life – and the pain – by staying where you are, never venturing through a door, never moving on. Your ego wants this kind of safety and security. You soul knows you were created for more.
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