Today's Journal

PRAYER IS CHOOSING

Richard Rohr, Franciscan priest and author wrote:

“Prayer is sitting in silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful.”

The choice could be to wonder if in prayer I connected with anything except my own head. The next choice is, does it really matter. The choice is really to determine that the Lord is ‘within us’ and indwelling as a presence in our inner being. If we sit in silence the Father can surely hear our prayers from the ‘right hand Son’ who helps ‘us pray as we ought,’ by ‘interceding for us’ (Romans 8:34).

Part of the waiting and choosing is to sort out where we are taking our ‘refuge.’

“It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in people.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in princes.”
(Psalm118:8-9)

Our silence will hopefully bring us to know the Father’s faithful love:
“Let all who fear the Lord repeat:
“’His faithful love endures forever.’” (Psalm 118:4)

Silence and choices are most often between turning to people (our self) or the Lord for solutions.

“If you trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.” Jesus