Prayer Means Never Having to Say Goodbye: “Worth Revisiting!” Wednesday

Posted in Catholic, spirituality

7668154_orig
linking to www.theologyisaverb.com and  www.reconciledtoyou.com/rty-blog.html.#WorthRevisit

Our whispered hello to God and each other is called prayer.

Our-whispered-hello-to

I am not just reciting theology when I remind you that there is neither time nor distance when we live and move and breathe in the Spirit.
When someone dies or moves far away, I don’t have to say good-bye just whisper hello, a different kind of hello that moves with the speed of light to brighten each heart when I think of them.

God is the great “I AM” who exists in yesterday, today and tomorrow. His Spirit mysteriously unites all of us, intimately present to each soul, all at the same time. Our whispered hello to God and each other is called prayer.

One night, while struggling to center myself in The Lord’s Presence, a crazy, impulsive thought popped into my mind. Without analyzing or questioning theological implications, I asked the Agnes Sanford, a wonderful, Anglican author, to pray for me. Immediately I experienced a warm, emotional embrace of love and sheer joy as I heard interiorly,
.
“My dear, you have my undivided attention. No one asks me to pray for them because I was a Protestant, you know!”
.
I laughed and laughed, in fact, I am grinning like a fool now.
The-Holy-Spirit-is-my
I don’t want to argue theology, I just want to encourage other people with the thought that there are tens, hundreds, why maybe thousands of sisters and brothers, most of whom we will never meet, who pray for us. As Saint Paul said there is a cloud of witnesses, both living and dead, cheering us on as we journey towards the Lord. The Holy Spirit is my companion but in His Body He has gifted me with many fellow travelers.
The wonderful thing is that prayer means never having to say good-bye.
prayer-means-never

Published by melanie jean juneau

Melanie Jean Juneau serves as the Editor in Chief of Catholic Stand. She is a mother of nine children who has edited her kid's university term papers for over a decade. She blogs at joy of nine9 and mother of nine9. Her writing is humorous and heart warming; thoughtful and thought-provoking. Part of her call and her witness is to write the truth about children, family, marriage and the sacredness of life. Melanie is the administrator of ACWB, a columnist at CatholicLane, CatholicStand, Catholic365 , CAPC, author of Echoes of the Divine and Oopsy Daisy, and coauthor of Love Rebel: Reclaiming Motherhood.

3 thoughts on “Prayer Means Never Having to Say Goodbye: “Worth Revisiting!” Wednesday”

  1. I have always loved knowing that we are “surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses”! As well as, that they are there to listen, comfort and cheer us on in our own race of life. They cause me smile too Meanie! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.