In reflecting on our call, our vocation, one of the fundamental aspects of it is "to know love and serve God on this earth and be happy with God in Heaven forever" (remember the Baltimore Catechism...question 2 --I think--?), one of the ways we achieve that is to "pray always".
How can we, though, when we can't even keep up with appointments, the daily newspaper, obligations of family and work, and the backlog of burdens of things undone and needed to be done...all together producing migraine material, even if we "don't let it get to us" (as we mistakenly fool ourselves in thinking) ? Whew! Yes, we can easily be overwhelmed and become paralyzed in thought, word and action. Time to stop. Remember who's in charge. Every breath we take, thought and experience we've had, all the loving people in our lives, our faith, our relationship with God begun at our baptism and nourished along the way by countless Masses and Holy Communions...all of these are GIFTS. Words of thanks cannot be repeated enough. Then our needs, the needs of others...matter for hours and hours of prayer, so multiple are they. How many steps to we take a day, how many breaths? How many heartbeats? If we offer each one of these to God at the beginning of the day, during the day, at the end of the day as our prayer of gratitude and petition, we have begun to "pray always."
Bro. Rene
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