“Prayer … is the daily manna which comes down from heaven … Like a gentle dew every morning moistens your soul by the grace which it draws down from God.”
Question for Meditation: What nourishes your soul?
Month: January 2018
“Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer.”
Question for Meditation: What helps you persevere in your prayer life?
“In solitude, we can listen to the voice of him who spoke to us before we could speak a word, who healed us before we could make any gesture to help, who set us free long before we could free others, and who loved us long before we could give love to anyone.”
Question for Meditation: Take time today for silence and solitude. What do you hear?
“Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and stretching forth his hands toward heaven, he said, ‘Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below; you keep covenant and love toward your servants who walk before you with their whole heart…’”
Question for Meditation: What does it mean for you if God keeps covenant and love toward you?
“How sad it would be, I thought, if we humans ultimately were to lose all sense of mystery, all sense of awe, if our left brains were utterly to dominate the right so that logic and reason triumphed over intuition and alienated us absolutely from our innermost being, from our hearts, from our souls.”
Question for Meditation: What inspires your sense of mystery and awe?
“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
Question for Meditation: How do your thoughts shape your awareness? How would you like them to?
“In the noise and clutter of my kitchen, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the Blessed Sacrament.”
Question for Meditation: Where can you find tranquility today in your everyday tasks?
“Creep down into the heart of Jesus. He alone can comfort you in your supreme hour of sorrow.”
Question for Meditation: What gives you real, true comfort in deep sorrow?
“Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.”
Question for Meditation: Take a few moments and use this prayer today.
“And seek help in patience and prayers…”
Question for Meditation: When did you last turn to prayer for help?
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