i-Llan: 16th March 2025 – Trusting God in a Tangled World

03/16/25 • 6 min

i-Llan: connecting faith, life and scripture

Reflection on trusting God prompted by the readings for the second Sunday in Lent.
Genesis 15. 1-12, 17, 18
Psalm 27
Philippians 3.17 -- 4.1
Luke 13. 31-35
This Sunday’s readings are here.

A poem by Charles Causley, I am the Great Sun, from a Normandy crucifix of 1632 echoes the mood of the gospel. You can read it here.

A helpful prayer of trust from Thomas Merton starts:
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me. . .
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
You can read it in full here.

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Reflection on trusting God prompted by the readings for the second Sunday in Lent.
Genesis 15. 1-12, 17, 18
Psalm 27
Philippians 3.17 -- 4.1
Luke 13. 31-35
This Sunday’s readings are here.

A poem by Charles Causley, I am the Great Sun, from a Normandy crucifix of 1632 echoes the mood of the gospel. You can read it here.

i-Llan is part of alisteningspace.uk

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i-Llan: connecting faith, life and scripture - i-Llan: 16th March 2025 – Trusting God in a Tangled World

Transcript

Welcome to i-Llan, a podcast connecting faith, life and scripture. This episode, on the second Sunday in Lent, is about trusting God in a tangled world.

As a child, did you play Cat’s Cradle? You place a simple loop of string over your hands and, by manipulating it with finger and hand movements, produce a sequence of complicated patterns. The game ends when you make a mistake or no further patterns can be made.

The world today feels to me rather like that, except that the cat�