Daily Reflection – 5/20/2026
Sacred Scripture
And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.” (John 17: 11-19)
Reflection
Jesus raises His eyes to heaven and begins to pray.
We’re being allowed into something very personal here. Not teaching. Not explaining. Just prayer. He speaks about “the hour.” The time of His suffering, of the Cross. And still, He calls it glory.
That’s hard to take in. Because to us, suffering doesn’t look like glory at all.
But to Him… it is love, completely given.
And right in the middle of that prayer, something quietly shifts. He starts speaking about those who have been given to Him.
About us.
Before anything happens, before the Cross, before all that is coming… He brings us to the Father. He doesn’t wait until it’s over. He does it now. And that does something.
It means we were not an afterthought. We were already on His heart. He speaks about eternal life, but not as something far away. It begins here. To know God. To be in relationship with Him. To carry something of His life even while everything else is going on around us.
Then He says something that stays with you:
“I am no longer in the world… but they are in the world.”
He knows what this place is like. He knows we will stay here, in all of it — the weight, the confusion, the things that don’t always make sense.
And He doesn’t take us out of it. He leaves us in it. But not alone. He has already brought us to the Father.
Which means whatever you’re carrying… has already been seen. Already been spoken for. Already been placed in God’s hands. Not because we have it all together.
But because we belong to Him.
Prayer of The Day
“Lord Jesus, take my life and make it wholly pleasing to you. Sanctify me in your truth and guide me by your Holy Spirit that I may follow you faithfully wherever you lead.”
Daily Note
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) wrote: “God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission – I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between people. He has not created me for nothing. Therefore, I will trust him. Whatever, wherever I am. I cannot be thrown away.”
