Letters of hope and consolation #13

What is happening in your life is exciting.  In the midst of work, study, friendships and all your other activities and responsibilities God is speaking to you.  He has given you a greater sense of his love, his fidelity and his compassionate heart in the very “concreteness” of your daily life.  You did not need to go on a journey to some far away land to discover Him.  You simply opened your heart to Him a little more each day and allowed Him the opportunity to respond.  And He continues to respond, much to your amazement!

In this simple and beautiful process you have learned a valuable lesson regarding the life of prayer:  honesty is always the best policy.  You yourself have said that the more honest you are with God the more He seems to respond, as if He was desperately waiting for you to share the “concreteness” of your daily life.  Since God seems to be responding so well to your honesty it appears that the future of this relationship depends a large part on your willingness to be real with Him.  Prayer, after all, is supposed to be easy.  It is we who make it difficult.

God bless you,
Fr. Jeremiah Myriam Shryock, CFRSt. Felix Friary, Yonkers, NY

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