Long Hard Journey Prayer keeps us open to the Spirit. The Spirit seeks to heal and lead us to life; we all have an infinite capacity to grow,to learn to love to have a relationship with the Infinite, the lover of our souls. Either life is an open-ended affair, or it is a dead end, when we hit the wall…..what we believe is a choice, neither is an escape from reality. One gives hope, the other the promise of eternal nothingness. Non-existence is not always a fearful concept, it can promise a cessation of suffering I believe that it is an illusion to think that we cease at death …..no, we all have a long hard journey, one we have not asked for, yet we are on it. So compassion is a good response to our fellow travelers, we all need support, love and yes I believe, prayers.-Br.MD
...…..no, we all have a long hard journey, one we have not asked for, yet we are on it. So compassion is a good response to our fellow travelers, we all need support, love and yes I believe, prayers. It is easy to play the recluse in our own private bubble. Best to view those we encounter as a gift from heaven. Hebrews 13:1-3 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body.
Agree with the sentiment here, but when it really comes down to it there is no such thing as a "private bubble" ~ God is always and everywhere. Our angels guardian are always with us, and so are the bad ones, as easily seen in the lives of the Desert Fathers. Imho, the main prayer warriors of the cloisters have been and are now being decimated to the detriment of all. Imagine having spent your entire life cloistered in a monastery, offering your very being as a prayer for the Church, only to have that ripped away and basically told that's not the way......talk about a wound to the soul of the Church..... So I say to all those who believe they are called to the deepest of prayer right now, please don't stop. You are in the gap. And you are not alone...
Well said, LMF! The danger I personally face is to spend an inordinate amount of time pontificating on a forum such as MOG and failing to go into the trenches where the disillusioned, downtrodden, fragile, and hurting need tender love and clarifying truth. Jesus, I love Thee!
