PRAYER

  
    We know so little about prayer today compared to Saints of other centuries.  Many talk about communion with God continually.  Practicing His presence was like breathing.  They went through their day's activities in joyful awareness of God's presence.  Some whispered simple sentence prayers of praise and worship all during the day.

    Like Brother Lawrence, who called himself the "the lord of all pots and pans," crystalized  this idea in his now-famous comment " the time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament."

    Do we really pray? So much foolishness would be left undone, if prayer were our main focus. Souls are dying while we play foolish games to the devil's delight.  Some have compassion-making a difference.