A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

Wednesday of the second week of Eastertide.

As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this stay to the Lord.

Say slowly from your heart,

Jesus, I trust in you.

You take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John, chapter 3, verses 16 through 21.

Jesus said to Nicodemus, God loved the world so much that he gave his only son,

so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost,

but may have eternal life.

For God sent his son into the world, not to condemn the world,

but so that through him the world might be saved.

No one who believes in him will be condemned, but whoever refuses to believe is condemned

already because he has refused to believe in the name of God's only son.

On these grounds is sentence pronounced, that though the light has come into the world, men have shown they prefer darkness to light because their deeds were evil.

And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, for fear his actions should be exposed. But the man who lives by the

truth comes out into the light so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God. What word made this passage come alive for you?

What did you sense the Lord saying to you? What did you sense the Lord an opportunity to speak to you.

Jesus said to Nicodemus,

God loved the world so much that he gave his only son, so that everyone

who believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life. For God sent his son into the

world, not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.

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