DRINKING AGAIN

Streams of living water. I wonder. Could it be that prayer is more a drink of water than a conversation. I know prayer is a two way conversation with God, I understand. But what if we admitted that our words are so inadequate for our needs and those of family and friends? Imagine yourself praying before God, but instead of speaking you bring your whole heart and all your needs and just kneel before Him. Then, you find God asks you to, "drink from His mercy," to be filled with His love for yourself and the one you pray for.

Like Michelangelo's Pieta  we hold our hurting, broken loved ones in our arms- but there is more. We can bring those we love to God, carrying them in our arms, asking Him for mercy; we have no words, only love as we carefully hold another, broken as they or we may be, and carry them to a loving Father.

Sometimes people are wrapped so tightly in our hearts that we cannot actually give them to God, (or we are too angry, too hurt or too bitter), for this we must drink deeply from the streams of living water within us. Just as a forest pool in January reflects the coming dusk and the trees, so when we look deeply into the pool of God's love within us we will reflect His love. We "know and rely on the God has for us," 1 John 4:16, and this will give us freedom and courage to give others to God. Maybe we will be brave enough to leave ourselves in God's hands as well.

Is there anyone you are praying for? Try giving them to God.

Medicine from Sacred Writings:

"Let us take refuge in the King that is above. Him let us call in to our aid." 

John Chrysostom Fourth Century