Making Time to be Alone with the Great Alone
Here, daily prayer is about a devoted love, a faithfulness of heart. By making space for prayer, by ordering our lives for this devotion, prudently subordinating other responsibilities around this heart to heart with the One who has loved us to the end, we are constantly astonished over how He is so much more faithful to us than we to Him. By setting aside our anxious concerns and lifting our hearts above the merely material, if even for just brief periods each day, we glimpse how the Almighty generously gives us all we really need and much, much more. The fact is, the Lord enjoys the company of those who humbly seek Him, who especially in their darkest hour trust in Him. He enjoys being astonished by our faith. Those who make Him the priority of their hearts are always blessed in ways beyond their understanding – discovering in being alone with the great Alone, the threshold into an unfathomable communion of love.
The best I have read on what prayer is and does. Thank you!
I can't be told this often enough. So easy to forget and struggle as Martha did and become anxious about everything. Thank you Dr. Lilles and blessings – Rene
I'd like to borrow this for a weekday homily… please. Blessings. Caring thoughts. Prayers. dt
"the more we attend to the Lord, the more we find ourselves able to attend to those He has entrusted to our care"….so true. Thanks for this beautiful post!
Thank you, I needed to read this especially this morning.
Thank you all for the very kind comments!
Thank you for posting this, and thank you for this blog. God bless you!
Beautiful. I've managed to return to morning prayer time… hopefully never to leave!