Holy Spirit of God teach me your way, despite my waywardness …

Jonah 1:1- 2:10 & Luke 10:25-37

The more self-referencing I am, the more complicated it can be to Journey through life. Although Jonah knew from his life of prayer that God was calling him to go to Nineveh, because he didn’t feel like doing it,  he instead boarded a ship going in the opposite direction. In Jesus’ story, the priest and a Levite, who came upon the man who had fallen into the hand of robbers, ‘didn’t feel like’ dirtying their hands with a nobody fallen by the wayside and walked away from divine Mercy. Jonah, the priest and the Levite all walked away from the ways of God to follow their own deeds and devices and ended up not only endangering their own lives, but the lives of others around them.  I, too, sometimes find myself doing the opposite to what I know to be God’s will or walking past an opportunity to engage God’s Mercy simply because I prefer my own agenda of comfort and safety to the ways of God.  Yet when I do allow myself to be guided by God and  to walk in His ways,  I, like Jonah in Nineveh who saved the whole city, or like the Samaritan who restored the life of a wayside stranger find life and joy of the divine kind.  Will I follow the ways of the Lord into fellowship with the Holy Three, or will I turn aside to do what I think is better and step into chaos and conflict?  Holy Spirit of God, teach me your ways despite my waywardness.  
 
As my life was ebbing away, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came to you.    (Jonah 2:7)
 
Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily;  To lean upon your great strength, trustfully, restfully;   To wait for the unfolding of your will, patiently, serenely; To meet other’s, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.  
Saint Francis of Assisi
 
Soli ad gloriam
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