Jade:
When you are tired, worn out or just plain stressed, do you pray, and if so, do you find it helpful?
Personally, I pray most any time I can, especially when I’m tired and down. While I may not feel engergized after (although there are times when I do) I generally feel very peaceful. Like I have been able to lean on my closest friend. Most times, there is not a word spoken between us.
Why do you think we find refuge in prayer during these times? Or at any time for that matter?
thanks in advance for your responses!
Jade.
Dear Jade
Thank you this is a lovely thread.
I pray all the time and to do this I just remember I am in the presence of God. I pray when I’m tired, fed up sad, happy glad, no real emotion either way etc etc etc. I pray constantly because my life relies on the Almighty One to who I pray and I can’t imagine how I used to live my life without praying constantly, but I did when I was a ‘child’ in my faith although I was an adult, now my faith has matured I can’t go without prayer for a minute and I constantly crave the company of Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God the Father and our Mother Mary as well as the saints and angels.
That all might sound a bit silly, I can’t really explain it other than like this, to not talk (pray) would be like asking me to stop talking to my family. I can’t do that, Jesus is my family, the Holy Trinity and all those in Heaven is my family and I talk to them all the time, no matter how I am feeling. Obviosuly I sleep at some point in 24 hours but I can’t sleep before I pray.
I suppose when you love someone you are yourself with them and you want to be with them all the time, you want to talk to them and share everything with them, you want to be with them and them with you. I love Jesus and I want to be with Him, I want to run to Him when I am hurt and tell Him all about it, I want to tell Him I love Him and talk to Him about all sorts of things. Prayer to me is just a conversation where I listen and sometimes say nothing at all although my heart speaks and sometimes I speak and He listens. Because I love Him I want to please Him and so I try, though sometimes I fail, to do all that He asks of me. Because I love Him I thank Him and praise Him.
All the time in the day is not enough to pray enough, so I make every second count and pray as much as I can in small ways thorugh work and duties as well by offering everything to God, even the things I have not done well. I really try to pray unceasingly and the more I discipline myself and train myself to this, the more time I spend in it, it really is forming the habit of praying unceasingly.
As you say Jade, in prayer is peace and I have never experienced a peace like it. There is no peace like that of Jesus.
That’s just my thoughts and the way it goes for me with prayer.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa