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- Where Are You Staying? January 4, 2012 [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/406ab3f78938a047
- What Love God Has Bestowed on Us January 3, 2012 [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/d47cad74ea9f25e9
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Topic: Where Are You Staying? January 4, 2012
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/406ab3f78938a047
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Jan 03 04:56PM -0800
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/36bf262da2203804
Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious
By Colleen O'Sullivan
Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness
is righteous, just as he is righteous… (N)o one who fails to act in
righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his
brother. (1 John 3:7, 10b)
John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus
walk by, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God." The two disciples heard
what he said and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following
him and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him,
"Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?" He
said to them, "Come, and you will see." So they went and saw where he
was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in
the afternoon. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two
who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother
Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah," which is translated
Christ. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said,
"You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas," which is
translated Peter. (John 1:35-42)
Piety
One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek:
To dwell in the Lord's house all the days of my life,
To gaze on the Lord's beauty, to visit his temple.
(Psalm 27:4)
Study
Today both of our Scripture readings focus on discipleship. In John's
Gospel, we see Jesus gathering his first disciples. In the First
Letter of John, we are told that once we have become disciples, our
lives will be forever changed. Our actions and our relationships with
others will reflect our beliefs. Others will know we are Christians by
the manner in which we conduct ourselves and the loving way we
interact with our brothers and sisters.
Action
Every day, many times a day, we cross paths with Jesus. He's in our
bedrooms, ready to greet us when we get up in the morning. He's
standing there while you're making your kids' lunches for school and
getting them out the door to the school bus. He's there as we go about
our work all day long. He's at the table with us when we eat dinner
with our families. Jesus is at all those after-school and evening
activities – sports practices, Girl/Boy Scouts meetings, church
activities, etc. Jesus is there as we fall into bed at the end of day.
Take time to reflect back over your day. When and where did you see
the Lord today? If you think you didn't, look harder, because Jesus is
there.
The Lord asks you and me the same question he asked his first two
would-be disciples - what are you looking for? What is it you seek
from me? That may surprise us, because often we think God is the one
always telling us what he wants from us, but the Lord truly wants to
know what is in our hearts. Share your deepest desires with him today
in prayer.
Those first two disciples answered Jesus' question by saying they
wanted to see where he was staying. What Jesus had to show them and us
wasn't his mother's home or his friends' Mary and Martha's house or
any other piece of real estate. It was a relationship he wanted to
share. Wherever Jesus was, he lived in communion with his Father. His
Father was his dwelling place. That's where he wants us to live as
well. When you are praying, try echoing the words of the psalmist:
"One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: To dwell in the Lord's
house all the days of my life."
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Topic: What Love God Has Bestowed on Us January 3, 2012
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/d47cad74ea9f25e9
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Jan 02 10:32PM -0800
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/a47b086c42bb24f0
Christmas Weekday
By Beth DeCristofaro
If you consider that God is righteous, you also know that everyone who
acts in righteousness is begotten by him. See what love the Father has
bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we
are. … No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or
known him. (1 John 2:29, 3:1,6)
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Behold, the
Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. … Now I have seen
and testified that he is the Son of God." (John 1: 29, 34)
Piety
Oh, I woke up dis mornin' wid mah min' / An' it was stayed / Stayed on
Jesus / Woke up dis mornin' wid mah min' / An' it was stayed / Stayed
on Jesus / Hallelujah
Can't hate your neighbor in your min' / If you keep it stayed / Stayed
on Jesus / Can't hate your neighbor in your min' / An' it was stayed /
Stayed on Jesus / Hallelujah
Makes you love everybody with your min' / When you keep it stayed /
Stayed on Jesus /
Makes you love everybody with your min' / When you keep it stayed /
Stayed on Jesus /
Hallelujah (Negro Spiritual, WOKE UP DIS MORNIN' (http://
www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/woke_up_dis_mornin.htm )
Study
In Luke's Gospel, we meet John before his birth when he leapt for joy
at hearing Mary's voice (Luke 1:41). Although John doesn't say it, I
imagine that John leapt for joy, too, as he saw Jesus approaching. His
life was acted in righteousness which allowed him to recognize the
revelation of God right in front of him at the humble river Jordan.
The letter 1 John, believed to have been written after the Gospel,
deals with those who already doubt both the divinity and true humanity
of Jesus. Two thousand years later, of course, many people doubt as
well. We reveal our doubt in our activities, choices, priorities,
cravings and distractions many of which are sinful. If we truly
believed what great love God has for us in sending Jesus to remove sin
one would think we would stop looking for gods within ourselves and
within other "golden" idols.
Action
Not that I endorse eating locusts, but perhaps the fierce focus of
John "preparing the way" is an image to help us keep on the way.
Prepare His way not my own. Rabbi Israel Salanter once taught that
"the material needs of my neighbor are my spiritual needs." Jesus'
love was dynamic and living, reaching out to the sinful, the
downtrodden, those who were "unclean" and outcast. This love is so
contrary to our society it even gave heart and hope to people that
were legally enslaved in our own history. In the plenty of God's love,
what can we focus on so that we can everyday see Jesus walking toward
us and our spirit might "leap for joy."
Hyperthermia shelters, food and clothing drives, teaching someone to
read or speak English, helping on a Cursillo committee or cook crew…on
what can you focus?
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