Today's Lenten Meditation: The Moment

At that very moment, perhaps a voice, perhaps an image, opened my heart. I ask myself what that is; it turns out that God has been quietly living in my heart.

Since the pandemic, the world has been transformed, communication no longer primarily face-to-face interactions. The internet is now used more to connect people’s lives, including church activities, so I started joining the Christ Church’s online Morning Prayer services.

For over four years, weekly morning prayers in both English and Chinese have transformed my life. I’ve gone from simply reading a prayer to truly enjoying do it and to listening to God’s word, even seeing visions He wants me to see. It’s a source of peace and balance, a blessing in my work and my daily life.

On New Years Day, I read Forward Day by Day. The editor specifically mentioned in that short essay, he decorated with the figures of baby Jesus and placed them in the matching scene to which they belonged – or, at least, seemed to belong. Those scenes grew more precious to him as he came to see that God has no good reason to dwell here. Yes, every time when I do my morning prayers, it’s that little Jesus Christ who is in every corner with me. Yes there, and here, God is - all of God, as much as we can ever see. With a face and a body, with the whole of our humanity. God chooses to be known to us in the way we are known to one another by name - Jesus. When I read and pray, I am not just reading and praying, but living in it.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

~2 Corinthians 5:17