DAILY REFLECTION: Tuesday, December 19, 2006

As I have mentioned before, in reading through Dr. Wayne Dyer's Intention, I have found myself with a deeper understanding of the psalms that I read each morning in the Office of Readings from the Office of the Hours (the Breviary used by priests and others). If you look at today's responsorial psalm, Readings and click onto Readings, you may be able to see where my mind and heart are going.

In these few verses, albeit a description we feel is directed at a much earlier generation, we can find much that speaks to you and me today. I believe that the psalmist understood that God is the Source of all intention. He intended the stars to shine at night, the sun to offer warmth after the coolness of darkness and so on. To "rescue me from the hands of the enemy," I am sure, is understood to relate to the devil. Yet, think this way for a moment or two. What are the hands of the enemy? Consider this thought: the hands of the enemy are all those things or persons who distract me from the intention that God had for me. Those evil hands might well be those ego-driven actions that keep me from fulfilling the real purpose in my life. Furthermore, jumping from the psalm to our present world, might we not ask ourselves this question: is not the negativity we sense so often in society, in our offices, in our families nothing but a sign that alignment with God's intention in the purpose of our lives been lost or minimized?