Day 16 – The Awakening
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Coming to his senses he thought, "How many of my father's hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger."
As the Son of God, Jesus often withdrew from His public activities as well as the people He ministered to, in order to be alone with His Father. Spending time with His Father was never a secondary priority to Jesus.
In silence and solitude, not only can we examine and rediscover ourselves, but we can also know God better which helps us better listen to the Father’s voice.
Jesus drew strength and courage from His Father. Through this direct connection with His Father, He made the right choices in life which allowed Him to be laser sharp in His mission.
During this Lent, let us cultivate a prayer life that is life-giving. Enter into our own heart daily to meet Abba Father in solitude. Jesus reminded the people in His time to stop turning His Father's house into a marketplace (John 2:13-25). In the same way, Jesus also reminds us, being temples of the Holy Spirit, we should discipline ourselves in order to cleanse our own temples. Through Jesus' resurrection, we are to become a new temple through which God appears and His glory shines. Would you also keep the temple of your body in order and clean to create a dwelling place for Abba Father in your heart?
REFLECTION
Do you desire to encounter God in silence, to pray to Him and to draw strength from Him?
Would you rather wander aimlessly in life, or to find peace and strength in God through which you will become who you are meant to be?
TODAY'S PRAYER
I ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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This pandemic brings our hurried life almost to a standstill. To view it positively, we are having more time with our family and with God. Thank God that in times when the whole world plunges into such a turmoil, He awakens me to stay close to Him, to draw strength from Him in order to face this challenge of a lifetime. Without our Heavenly Father , I would have been crushed and wandered farther and farther away. May our good Lord give me wisdom to be vigilant with all life’s distractions and that my gaze will.be always on Him!
「我們回想起當我們依賴著祂時，祂供給我們一切所需。離開這位慈愛的父親是多麼愚蠢的事。」是的，我的心不是宮殿，而像個垃圾場，堆滿了許多無意義的事情，以至於沒有天主的位置，真的是太愚蠢了！
我要學習耶穌：「藉著退隱到寧靜的地方，有時是山上，有時是湖邊，在父的懷中重新找到能量和細聽天父的聲音。」
「在這個四旬期，讓我們培養一個能賦予我們生命的祈禱生活。每一天都進入我們的內心與阿爸父獨處。」
主，請來！ 聖神，請充滿我！ 阿爸父，每天見！
親愛的亞爸父：我必須習慣回到祢那裡去，享受與祢那一份親密的關係。我明白只要我每天用心找時間與祢談心！以祈禱、感恩與祢相遇，就能得到感受祢的臨在，這正是支持我生活的生命泉源！我愛祢！我深信祢更愛我！
親愛的天父，我願意學習主耶穌每天安排寧靜的時間與祢相聚。我相信在這時刻才能聆聽祢的聲，更明白祢的旨意，檢視自己的缺失和得到心靈的治癒。我渴慕和你在一起因為因為祢是我生命的泉源。我感謝主，讚美主！❤️???
Father, enable me to give my all. Please discipline me and guide me.
我們生活在勞勞碌碌的境況中，確實需要亞爸父的安慰，和在祂在内得到平安和力量！我感恩除了每天聆聽聖言外，每星期安排了2小時朝拜聖體，和主親近，儘訴心中情，靠祂恩典，令我重新得力去面對新挑戰！感謝主！
「靜，能觀天；觀天主，能觀宇宙；觀宇宙，能觀自己。」這番話頗有點哲學的意念，但為活在今天繁忙急速的我們，卻是一項很好的提醒。或許有人會說，花時間作如此行徑，實在太奢侈，太浪費啊！
反省今天小兒的醒覺，其中一個重要的因素，就是當他靜下來，細想自己的作為，和父親的憐愛，因而就算只是成為僕人，都希望返回父親的身邊，為的不是一頓溫飽，而從內心經驗到父愛的需要，這份經驗完全來自靜默中帶來的深度之愛，令自己能有勇氣地站起來。
因此，「靜」在生命中的必要性，由此而體會到，並推動人願意看清自己的真我。
轉發第16天心得：
要做到行動中的默觀，從來不是容易的。最基本的操練就是每天找一些時間來祈禱。祈禱是一種選擇，選擇回到天父那裡，跟祂重建關係。生活中常常充滿了噪音，選擇一些寧靜獨處的時間，真的需要決心和行動。祈禱真的能幫助自己靜下來，看事情更清晰。即使還看不明白，至少可以在天主內得到安歇。耶穌就邀請勞苦和負重擔的到祂哪裡去。有了在主內的平安和心靜的狀態，才足以面對周遭的嘈雜。在嘈雜中抱有好的心態。好的關係是常常意識到和主一起在面對生活，而不是盲目獨行。
我信全知全能的真天主，卻不信心懷不正的地上牧者。我會跟隨基督，绝不會走叛逆之路。?☠
生活充滿了噪音，令思緒起伏不定，也令我聽不到天父的聲音。我渴望有一片寧靜和獨處的空間與主相遇及對話。?
I desire to encounter God in silence to pray to Him and to draw strength from Him.
Lord, please help me to find peace and strength in You. Amen.
今日的禱告正是時常發生在我身上, “我的生命充滿了令我分心的事物和噪音，這不但令我的思想混亂，也使我遠離祢。我忙碌的生活也令我聽不到祢的聲音。”
這是我想同天父講: “天父，我希望親近祢，在祢內休息及提取力量。”
亞孟?
我每天常領聖體，感覺到父住在我內，我住在父內，心中的寧靜非常恩慰。遠離了生活的噪音,唯是主才是我最渴望的。他供給了我一切所需,我還有何求呢?主我愛你直到永遠，請賜我力量堅持信德，成為你的好子女。
主說：誰若喝了我賜給他的水，他將永遠不渴，並且我賜給他的水，將在他內，成為湧到永生的水泉。
Do we consider the Ten Commandments as a gift and blessing from Our Father, or do we consider the Ten commandments as a restriction of our freedom?
If we finally realized Our Father ‘s love, after we have fallen away and left Our Father’s house, then we realized that the Ten commandments is a blessing and gift to protect us when we face danger on our life journey.
Our children never needs us to remind them to put on the seat belt, because they know that the commandment and the law of putting on the seat belt is to protect them when the car gets into an accident on an icy highway. Only then would we sings praise that the command of God is more precious than gold and sweeter than honey as the responsorial psalm at this Sunday Mass proclaims.
If we consider the Law of God is only a restriction of our freedom, then we may still like the elder son.
Maybe we need to fall, Oh the happy fault of Adam, because through it we have a merciful redeemer. (Easter Vigil Exultant).
聖經時常提及天人的合一好像天主是新郎人類是新娘，新約時代更清楚耶穌基督是新郎聖教會是他的新娘。那麼十誡便好像是聘禮，耶穌十字架上的犧牲便是嫁妝。聘禮和嫁妝都是盟約的見證，我們怎能不珍惜？十誡的恩賜是為保護我們，十字架上的犧牲，使彌撒聖祭，聖體聖血成為我們生命每日的食糧。
舊約十誡為聘禮，
新約十架成嫁妝。
我的生命充滿了令我分心的事物和噪音，這不但令我的思想混亂，也使我遠離祢。我忙碌的生活也令我聽不到祢的聲音。天父，我希望親近祢，在祢內休息及提取力量。我的天主，我知道祢愛我，所以也請祢管教我。我渴望每日在寧靜及獨處中與祢相遇，去感受祢在我之內的神聖臨在。
渴望在靜默中與阿爸父相遇，向祂祈禱並從祂那裡汲取力量.
现在是酲悟時刻，我决定改过，求主保守，亞孟。