English: Lords Prayer in Aramaic(Syriac) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Devotional Thought of the Day:

 ¹⁶  Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with!  James 5:16 (MSG)

“In te, Domine, speravi—“In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped.” And together with human means I prayed and took my cross. And my hope was not in vain, nor will it ever be. Non confundar in aeternum—“Let me never be confounded.”

You don’t know what to say to our Lord in prayer. Nothing comes to you and yet you would like to ask his advice about many things. Look: take some notes during the day of the things you want to think about in the presence of God. And then go with those notes to pray.” (1)

In Bible Study this morning, we were looking at the 11th chapter of Hebrews, and the first fourteen verses.  As we talked though Abel and Enoch, Noah and Abraham and Sarah, we saw something very inspiring.

We saw the trust they had, not in the promises, but in the God who they knew existed, and knew was with them, that they could seek Him out.  More than that – since we know the stories, we had the assurance that sin didn’t separate them from God.  They were given hope – not just for the moement, but the hope that comes from a life of walking with God, the hope that is assured by love, and is never in vain.  The more we talked, the more the concept solidifed that though they couldn’t know all the details of what awaited them, the knew God clearly, trusted in Him, spent time with Him.

But what do we pray about?  How do we have a conversation about life with the God who created the stars?

Well my first question is, “what do you need to trust God in/for/with?”    Write them down as St. Josemaria suggests ( you could tweet them to Him?!) or text/fb message them to yourself for later review.  Lots of technology things out there – but then, set the time apart for them.  Think through them, ask God for guidance, to be the active partner that He has promised to be in your life.  (Managing Partner actually)   All through the day – keep reminders of what you need to discuss with God, sure the traumas and problems, but also the things you need to voice you admiration and adoration of His creativity, of His sense of beauty, of His ability to bring healing and peace.

And trust Him, deeply, even more deeply than you trust yourself.

Godspeed

(1)Escriva, Josemaria (2010-11-02). The Way (Kindle Locations 377-383). Scepter Publishers. Kindle Edition.