We long for God in prayer...

The life of each individual person is made up of many and various activities. Deep in each person’s heart is the longing, fitfully glimpsed but half realized, if all gathered up these intense pursuit of one final objective is worthy of all toil and sweat and devotion of the human heart. Such can be described a half-cast dream; but in reality it is a picture of leveled-up activities, where the trivial jostles the less trivial, and the less trivial jolts the significant matters, and there is no unity of pattern, nor any intense concentrated purpose. The real perspective of values are hazy in parts; what is importantly trivial but most urgent, looms huge and demands a lot of attention while what is largely important but not necessarily urgent, is relegated into the oblivion. THE THING of most importance - is not always what is demanded by the needs of this instance – not in this very moment.

There are momentary events lurking into subconscious disturbance. It cannot be described as it were with anything else but blank. I for one have caught myself many times in the past in zero state disposition. Thinking deeply between noise and silence, turmoil and tranquility yet nothing seems to be in the middle. We may turn from it all yet the confusion of all that traffic sinks to silence, as in a spirit of grace and love, God will speak to us in prayer. If we gaze our eyes to heaven with a swift upward glance of the divine, God’s finite nature will allow us to glimpse, to that sublime fusion of the glowing light that can easily be described as a mystery. In reference to all the saints’ experience this is called a beatific vision. To the hoipoloi it is an experience of being in awe of the divine nature of God. Skeptics may say that this is impossible, yet in prayer, though there is ‘through a glass in a dark state,” we look upon God and comes as near as he can to that unity of action and purpose for which his heart has a deep and secret longing. Therefore, prayer is one the essential natures of our life – the food we need to feed our being and more importantly our souls so that our deepest longing may journey into everlasting life. A longing for God.

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