Humankind

 

The Spiritual Waiting Room

Humankind

All     Spirit-filled

Entering     Expanding     Uniting

Room For God Within

Heart 

(photo and poem by Kathy McNamara)

Scripture:   John 6: 66 to 69

After Jesus taught this many of His followers left Him and returned to their previous way of life and no longer journeyed with Him. 

Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you also want to leave me?"

Simon Peter responded and said, "Master, to whom else shall we go? You have the words that bring us to true life. We now believe and are convinced that you are the Holy God whom God has sent."

Reflection

It is hard for us to believe that this is the one year anniversary of our blog! 

We would like to thank all of you who have taken time to read our weekly blog and to forward your comments and encouragement to us.

We feel deeply blessed by your words and your kindness.

The scripture today speaks about a difficult time in the life of Jesus. He has just given a beautiful teaching about the Bread of Life to His disciples.

In a way they have been in the Spiritual Waiting Room of Jesus----reflecting on His words. They found the words hard to comprehend.

They asked themselves how Jesus could give them His very flesh to eat. He had done a tremendous miracle just before this when He fed five thousand men from just 5 loaves and two fish. There were many in the crowd who wanted to make Jesus a king.

When He told them that He would give them something even greater, they could not understand how this could be. It seemed crazy to them and so they left Jesus.

We are in the same situation today. Can we accept the depth of the Love of Jesus? Can we accept that Jesus, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, wants to come into our body and soul and to be with us always?

As we come into the Spiritual Waiting Room each week----we to reflect Jesus through our photos and words and you to pray, we can ask ourselves if we accept this message of Jesus.

Do we want to walk away?

The words of Peter keep ringing in our hearts.

To whom else shall we go?

We realize that Jesus has the words of Eternal Life.

Jesus desires only to nourish us and to love us.

As we wait, we can take time to ponder this message and to say thank you (Eucharist) to Jesus!

1. How do you picture Jesus in this reading? How was He feeling?

2. What does it mean to you when Jesus says that He is the Bread of Life?

3. To whom else would you go?

(scripture adaptation, reflection, and questions by John J. McNamara)