Visions of Peace--Week 7-Day 1

quiet listening as you respond to readings today

Peacemakers

Memory verses 

Psalm 139

23Search me, O God, and know my heart;
  Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

24And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
  And lead me in the everlasting way.

Thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11

Without faith it is impossible to please God.  Hebrew 11:6

This week, we will be working to think further by reading passages and responding with our own thoughts guided by the Holy Spirit and all we have been reading, listening to, and thinking about over the last weeks and months.

Our first reading is....

A Zen Lesson

"Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every traffic jam, loss, moment of joy or depression, addiction, every breath. Every Moment is the Guru"

                                                JoKo Beck, American Author and Zen Teacher

Response--

How wonderfully true and how wonderfully amazing, and Christians would say the Lord gives us exactly what we need at every moment, not just the unnamed and vague concept of "life". The Creator of life gives us all things and all situations, to help us and teach us. The sometimes difficult, but exciting part is learning how to realize the lessons, and even better, to enjoy them.

(How can a vague idea of “life” give us anything?)

                                                an anonymous friend

What is your response?