Prayerful Listening

Perhaps those words of Jesus to Martha, "you are worried and distracted by many things," (Lk 10:41) is an accurate description of much of modern human life. We have more things to distract us than ever before. A couple of minutes ago I was looking at the video pictures from the rovs sealing the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico; fascinating, but distracting me from preparing this blog. Being distracted makes it difficult to focus on the one thing that is important, our relationship with Jesus. In this one thing is our eternal welfare. Yet, like ants around a drop of ant poison, we busy ourselves with things that look like they might give life, but in the end lead to death.

 (Jn 6:27)

Let us listen to Jesus and choose life. (Jn 6:68)