Ordinary Time 
Pause
Our eyes can fool us. We are each captive to our own way of seeing things, struggling to see the world from any perspective but our own.
Sometimes we look away, afraid of what we might see or afraid of what it might mean to see things differently than we usually do.
Wisdom shines a light on what we look at, and God is the source of that illumination. Be prepared now to see things more clearly.
Listen
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
Romans 7:21–25
Think
We will always have choices. Some of the right answers will be so obvious we won’t have to think about it. But some of them? Not so obvious. There will be choices that we know should go one way but we just really want to go another. There are days we will get it right and days we will get it wrong and days that we just aren’t sure.
On the best days and on the worst—in every choice we make—God through Jesus Christ our Lord is with us. Always. Every single day, through every choice, there is good news: you are not alone!
Ruth Perkins Lee
Pray
God, thank you for never leaving me alone. Open my eyes to see your constant presence. Amen.
Go
May you have new eyes to see this very day a world that is not exactly all that you thought.
May God give you new wisdom to understand the things that God would have you to know.
And may all this result in a new humility that makes you a more effective witness to God’s mysterious works.
