When we pray, something goes on deep inside us. Without being able to articulate it, we get to know God. Everyone who prays knows God. Some of the deepest faith is in people who just know in the heart that God is near, that God is caring and that God is love, and that everything in life can make sense. We can try too hard in prayer to reach God; the movement of prayer is that God reaches us, and when we sense that, we know we are immensely gifted. From www.sacredspace.org reading for April 19.
Every once in a while the most apparent effect of the time I dedicate to prayer is simply gratitude and appreciation. It is a profound sense of humble gratitude for the process of prayer itself--for the conversation that God initiates with me, his child.
How can it be that God, the creator, reveals the pulse of love's heart to me whenever I stop to say "help me see beauty and love in this." How wonderful that in that beauty Christ's eyes look into mine, adjusting the chin of my soul saying "Now, look more closely at this. See it as I see it, with my eyes and my mind." How amazing that the echoing presence of the Holy Spirit, then, encourages me to walk in the reverberation of prayer even as my mind and my body attends to thoughts and tasks that seem more ordinary....more pragmatic.
My entire existence depends upon prayer for direction, meaning, momentum and lasting purpose. How can I not give thanks for the reality that God, three in one, wants to be in conversation with me?
Thank you......
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