By Peter Kennedy
“The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and self-controlled so that you can pray.” – 1 Peter 4:7
Simone Weil was a French philosopher and political activist. She was brought up in an agnostic Jewish home. She became a Christian and is the author of “Waiting for God”. In her book she explains, one can love God by praying to God, and attention is the very “substance of prayer”: when one prays, one empties oneself, fixes one's whole gaze towards God, and becomes ready to receive God.
She also writes in her book: “In 1938…I was suffering from splitting headaches; each sound hurt me like a blow…. I discovered the poem…called “Love” [by George Herbert] which I learned by heart. Often, at the culminating point of a violent headache, I made myself say it over, concentrating all my attention upon it and clinging with all my soul to the tenderness it enshrines. I used to think I was merely reciting it as a beautiful poem, but without my knowing it the recitation had the virtue of a prayer. It was during one of these recitations that Christ himself came down and took possession of me.”
In all things and at all times, we need to pray. Today in prayer, invest some extra time in prayer to build your relationship with Jesus.
"As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer." - Henri Nouwen
God’s Word: “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.” – Ephesians 6:18
Overcast, 61°
