Re: Adjust

Albert Bogle January 03, 2025 1 0

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Luke 2: 41-52 (NRSVA)

41 Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. 43 When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. 44 Assuming that he was in the group of travellers, they went a day’s journey. Then they started to look for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, ‘Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.’ 49 He said to them, ‘Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ 50 But they did not understand what he said to them. 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favour.

All of us in some way will have to re-adjust different aspects of our lives as 2025 unfolds. One area that can be quite tricky is knowing when it is time to let go of a particular responsibility or friendship or pattern of life, in order to let another flourish and develop.

In this passage we read how Mary and Joseph discovered the hard way that Jesus was becoming his own person and that they in turn would have to respect God’s call upon his life. 

Are there people and ideas we should be treasuring in our hearts and releasing into their ministry and calling? Let us all guard against holding on too long, to roles and controls.  Others from a new generation may well be ready to take responsibility if only given the chance and the permission to be themselves.

Prayer:

God our Father

Give to each of us

The grace and courage

To step back when it is our time to make the re-adjustments

Help us to see the potential in those who are up and coming

Open our minds to the possibilities of new things

And new experiences of faith 

Help us to be true to our responsibilities

To ensure we pass the faith to the next generation

Who are ready to do ‘their Father’s business”