Wednesday, Fifth Week of Lent
WEDNESDAY, FIFTH WEEK OF LENT
Recognizing
Prayer as Essential
If our
God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire and
out of your hand, O king, let him deliver us. Daniel 3:17
The crucial
question is whether you should pray always and whether your prayer is
necessary. In one’s spiritual life, the stakes are all or nothing! If someone
says that it’s good to turn to God in prayer for a spare minute, or if he
grants that a person with a problem does well to take refuge in prayer, he has
as much as admitted that praying is on the margin of life and that it doesn’t
really matter. Whenever you feel that a little prayer can’t do any harm, you
will find that it can’t do much good either. Prayer is prayer only when we can
say that without it, a man or woman could not live.
Today, I
will examine my conscience to see where prayer ranks in my life, and I will
pray for the grace to make it more important – perhaps the most important thing
in my life.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
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