Reflection: Sunday 15th May and for the week ahead:

From the Collect for this week

Almighty God ...

grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires,

so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect

Reflection:

For weeks - perhaps months, if she’s honest - she’d been meaning to phone her old friend, but had been rather busy. Finally she got round to doing so, only to hear that her friend had been taken to hospital the previous day, and had died that same night.

So often we put off things we fully intend to do: a visit, a phone call, a donation to a cause we care about. The ‘good desires’ are there, but if we don’t act on them it is all too easy to wait too long, or simply to forget.

But this is not just about checking off a ‘To Do’ list!

It’s about the direction of our lives.

If we humbly follow up the good desires planted in us by God, He will help and guide us in bringing them to fruition.

Revd Rosemary Kobus van Wengen