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Response
Deepening my desire to cooperate with God’s action in my life.
In light of my review, what is my response to the God of my life?
I speak with God as one friend speaks to another.
I become still in the presence of God
who created me and looks at me with love.
I bring to mind all the gifts of creation, the gift of my very self —
forgiven, called by Christ and graced by the Holy Spirit.
I bring to mind the particular gifts of this day
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What am I especially grateful for in the past day ….
The gift of another day?
The love and support I have received?
The courage I have mustered?
An event that took place today?
I ask for God’s light
to help me to see in my experience what God wants me to see.
Where have I felt God’s Spirit to be near
and where have I felt isolated from God?
I ask for the light to know God and to know myself as God sees me.
God is always at work in my life
, labouring to bring about my greatest good and
the good of others.
I am invited to cooperate with the action of God in my life
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so I look for those moments in the day when I have been open to God and have
experienced God’s grace and the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control (Galatians 5:22).
I pay attention
to these times of life, light and energy whether they were striking or modest.
I also become aware
of any sense of distance and dislocation when I felt far away
from God’s grace. I try not to be judgemental but simply to notice.
These questions might help me
to get in touch with the movement in my spirit;
Where have I felt true joy today?
What has troubled me?
What has challenged me?
Where and when did I pause today?
Have I noticed God’s presence in any of this?
As I look ahead
what comes to mind?
With what spirit do I want to enter tomorrow?
I ask for the graces I need to live more faithfully
in the way I am being drawn by the Spirit of Christ.
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