Daily Thought For April 9, 2021

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 Unpredictability in Prayer 

“We sometimes forget that the goal of prayer is primarily to deepen our relations of love with God, and this implies a certain unpredictability in the time of prayer.  What we start out ‘looking at’ in prayer is sometimes quickly blanketed in shadow despite our efforts and quickly disappears from sight.  Likewise, the words of Scripture that initially hold our mind with some interest may abruptly collapse into fragments and fade away as if the wind had suddenly caught and scattered them.  What seems at first a failure of this sort may actually conceal an invitation to relinquish our sense of control over prayer and allow the hand of another to take over, namely, God’s hand. ...Indeed, we learn in time that what God seems most to desire are encounters with himself that will be poor and unsupported by any ability on our part.” 

(Fr. Donald Haggerty, April 2021 Magnificat for 4-7-21, p. 62-63.)


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