Readings: Ex 3: 13-20; Ps 105: 1 and 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27; Matt 11: 28-30
Sure, Lord, we come to you. Because we feel oppressed and tired, because the weight of life, in some moments, is really unbearable. We come to you because we know that only in you do we find comfort and encouragement. We do not want you to solve problems but to enable us to see them in the right perspective, without letting ourselves be discouraged, without feeling sorry for ourselves, without running away.
We come to you, Lord, not because we don't know where to go but because you alone, now and always, give us the possibility to see things in a radically different way.
We come to you because the world seduces us but does not want us, it squeezes us like lemons, it asks us to blindly trust its laws, its market, its logic, but it proves a thousand times that it does not really want our good.
We come to you because you are the only one who has loaded yourself, like us, with the weight of life. Without shortcuts, without preferences, without deceptions. A God who becomes a man in earnest, who learns to laugh and cry, whom he has loved as no one has ever loved, to the point of dying.
We come to you, Lord, in this weak and discouraged summer, marked by disappointment and despair. We come to you, Master. Abba Meskel