Sometimes prayer feels easier than other times. Sometimes physical, emotional or spiritual pain, illness, upset, dismay, doubt, fear can get in the way of having a peaceful mind with which to feel, see, hear or sense that God is with us.
Yet this is perhaps the most needy time for prayer, because prayer can bring peace, hope, upliftment, comfort, light to a mind beleaguered by stresses, problems, worries and stuckness.
So when I feel like this, if I can remember to be still a moment and centre myself in God’s energy, rather than my own pain-filled energy or the chaotic energy generated by the world, then I can find possibility of healing, grace, new perspective, inner calm or a new vision of an old or current difficulty or problem.
I can reach out and feel a greater connection, for in truth I am held in the Love of the Trinity, the awesome Heart of Love and one with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. How can that not bring new freedom from the tyranny of fear, the possibility of action from inaction and healing out of brokenness?
Yet this is perhaps the most needy time for prayer, because prayer can bring peace, hope, upliftment, comfort, light to a mind beleaguered by stresses, problems, worries and stuckness.
So when I feel like this, if I can remember to be still a moment and centre myself in God’s energy, rather than my own pain-filled energy or the chaotic energy generated by the world, then I can find possibility of healing, grace, new perspective, inner calm or a new vision of an old or current difficulty or problem.
I can reach out and feel a greater connection, for in truth I am held in the Love of the Trinity, the awesome Heart of Love and one with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. How can that not bring new freedom from the tyranny of fear, the possibility of action from inaction and healing out of brokenness?
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