A Time to Reflect

Spending some down time over the holy days of Easter and beyond has given me time with family and time to think about life.

To reflect upon the most important things.

Like God, family, relationships, love….

I am reminded about Paul’s description of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-8:

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 NRSV

Not just noise but words with love.

Not just busyness of life but love focused on people.

See how Jesus loved – totally, sacrificially, humbly, selflessly.

Total love for us. Thinking about our future relationships with Him.

Do we think about our personal relationship with Him? Or do we just go with the flow, with the crowd mentality changing from day to day?

Are we stable and do we have solid convictions about life, about this God of love?

Do we see Him as Our Savior? The alpha and omega – the beginning and the end?

We are only completed in Him, with Him in our life.

These few days have been very special.

A refocus, a recommitting of my life to my precious Lord.

An ‘ahhh’ moment of directing my heart more to the Lord.

What have you done this Easter?

Of course this has also been a time to reflect on the life of Pope Francis. We pray for Pope Francis at this time the prayer he asked for, that our Lord is so merciful, and may He extend mercy to Pope Francis as he enters heaven, his final resting place.

We pray also that the Holy Spirit falls upon each Cardinal as they soon contemplate who to vote to be our next Vicar of Christ.

May these jottings from my journal inspire you to believe in and fall in love with Christ- the hope of the world, as stated in Jeremiah 17:7, ‘Blessed is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord!’

Love

Rosemary

Every week groups of ladies meet together to chat about the things I raise in my weekly blog post and to chat about life in general. We call these ‘Heart Connect’ groups.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

How did you spend the last few days over the Easter weekend? How did you reflect on the death and resurrection of Christ?

Was there a moment that you sensed God’s presence with you?

How will your personal relationship with Jesus change this year as a result of Easter?