Today I commit to prayer in a more disciplined way, using a journal to track my progress. My first prayer is that I can use my writing interest to create a stronger dialogue with Jesus. Perhaps this is a journal I should have started long ago, because God knows how important His prayer has been to me.
My most important prayer has been the Our Father … it has soothed me during my darkest days of depression, and it continues to be the anchor to my prayer life. In truth, I don’t think I have ever completed a rosary of Hail Marys but rather have always gravitated to the Lord’s Prayer.
To this day, I focus on one phrase … protect us from all anxiety. There is much that one can be anxious about in daily life, but once you see life as a continuum of progress until death, you realize how little there really is to worry about. It may be that the most important issue in life is being ready to die. Not in a morbid sense or a secular sense, with all of your affairs in order. But ready because we have a relationship with Jesus that will bring us to life everlasting, as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior.
My thought today comes from sacredspace.ie … We are never stationary on the path to God, because our prayer changes. Many good people move from using well-rehearsed vocal prayers and pious reflections, to a more silent, wordless sort of presence: Be still and know that I am God. With our oldest friends we do not need to talk.
Today I will reflect on how God can become one of my oldest friends. After all, He has been in my life forever and always will be.
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