By Fr. Jeremiah Myriam
Shryock, CFR St. Felix Friary, Yonkers, NY
What is happening in your life is exciting. In the midst of work, study, friendships and all your other activities and responsibilities God is speaking to you. He has given you a greater sense of his love, his fidelity and his compassionate heart in the very “concreteness” of your daily life. You did not need to go on a journey to some far away land to discover Him. You simply opened your heart to Him a little more each day and allowed Him the opportunity to respond. And He continues to respond, much to your amazement!
In this simple and
beautiful process you have learned a valuable lesson regarding the life of
prayer: honesty is always the best policy. You yourself have said that the more
honest you are with God the more He seems to respond, as if He was desperately
waiting for you to share the “concreteness” of your daily life.
Since God seems to be
responding so well to your honesty it appears that the future of this
relationship depends a large part on your willingness to be real with Him.
Prayer, after all, is supposed to be easy. It is we who make it difficult.
I once envisioned an image of Jesus that
has haunted me often through the years.
He is standing beside me “hat in hand” so to speak, waiting for me to
spend a moment, just to speak with Him about what I’m actually thinking that
moment, to notice and acknowledge His ever presence with me.
How sad, how wrong, that the King of all
the universe is left waiting, while we are paying attention to everything
else. He is hungering for us to talk
about all of it with Him.
Carolyn Barth OFS
Pax et bonum
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