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03-30-2008, 05:17 AM
Acts 2:42-47. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting-Ps 117(118):2-4, 13-15, 22-24. 1 Peter 1:3-9. John 20:19-31.
You did not see him, yet you love him.
Lord, the story of Thomas touches me deeply, for I am he. I am so often despondent, locked in, stubborn, because I am afraid: afraid to trust that you and your promises are fulfilled.
Yet I marvel that you give me faith, and more than that at the way in which you do so. You seem to understand my doubts, my pleadings. Just as you approach Thomas with your wounds and ask him to touch them, so you touch my wounds, my doubts and ask me to believe it is you who are with me.
And you trust me even more. You send me to the people around me-whether it be to wife, husband, children, family, workmates, fellow students. You send me to care for the people I meet-the suffering, the dying, the lonely, the sick-and you ask that I somehow convey to them that you not only died and rose for us but are alive in the world now.
Help me to see, as Peter does, that while my faith is tested, it will be proved like gold. Help me to see that my life is renewed and reborn through a living and active God, and that this is real in my life.
Gift me, Lord, with a deeper faith-a joyful faith which is alive. Gift me with the ability to touch the wounds of the people whom I meet. Help me when I am doubtful.
I have never seen your face, Lord, but I have touched you.
Daily Meditation
You did not see him, yet you love him.
Lord, the story of Thomas touches me deeply, for I am he. I am so often despondent, locked in, stubborn, because I am afraid: afraid to trust that you and your promises are fulfilled.
Yet I marvel that you give me faith, and more than that at the way in which you do so. You seem to understand my doubts, my pleadings. Just as you approach Thomas with your wounds and ask him to touch them, so you touch my wounds, my doubts and ask me to believe it is you who are with me.
And you trust me even more. You send me to the people around me-whether it be to wife, husband, children, family, workmates, fellow students. You send me to care for the people I meet-the suffering, the dying, the lonely, the sick-and you ask that I somehow convey to them that you not only died and rose for us but are alive in the world now.
Help me to see, as Peter does, that while my faith is tested, it will be proved like gold. Help me to see that my life is renewed and reborn through a living and active God, and that this is real in my life.
Gift me, Lord, with a deeper faith-a joyful faith which is alive. Gift me with the ability to touch the wounds of the people whom I meet. Help me when I am doubtful.
I have never seen your face, Lord, but I have touched you.
Daily Meditation