06/10/2021

Jonah's dialogue with God is recorded by human hands and arises from human memory; but,the conversation is divinely inspired and is recorded here and now in the scriptures to be read at the formal prayer of the Church. We who read and listen may find the haggling with God not in keeping with the ideas we have of God developed from the teachings of the Incarnate Son of God who is the culmination of the Old Testament prophets. 

Jesus never bickers with the Father. How can he? He is the Son of God and knows totally the Will which he shares in Love with the Spirit. Jesus is also truly human and so can experience the temptations we are faced with on a daily basis. His human anger cleared the temple of the money grubbers that polluted the Court of the Gentiles. Even after the Resurrection it is recorded that he ate and drank.

"I thirst" and a cry of utter despair immediately precedes his death. Is this God or Man who cries out so desperately?

Dear Lord help us to understand what it is that our prayer should be. It must not be a gabbling of words but the sincerity of believe shown in Our Lord's teaching and summed up in the words of the "Our Father". This "today" let me be true to my baptismal promises and reject all that is not You.