Prayer

For days now I have been bringing a certain intention to prayer. This morning in Adoration I again prayed and asked Jesus to please show me what HE wanted me to do.

When I got back to my computer I came upon this post "The Struggle of Prayer" at Vultus Christi.

Thank God I had the grace to see that this was God putting this article at this moment in my path.

While I haven't been praying for control over someone I HAVE been praying for God to make a situation "different". And I suppose in a way over a person. Asking Him to open someone's eyes to a different perspective. But I've been going about it the wrong way.

Instead I need to pray for acceptance of the way He has chosen things to be. And I believe that He HAS choosen things to be this way.....I just don't like it so I think He needs to change it.

I tell God how best to resolve the problem. I advise Him on how best to change the person who is the object of my intercession. I bargain with Him in order to avoid the suffering that I fear: a suffering that may well be imaginary and that, more often than not, is merely the projection of an anguish lurking somewhere in my subconscious.

I could have written that paragraph....especially after my morning Adoration. The final paragraph from Fathers post is to pray the greatest prayer of letting go....the Rosary....in front of the icon of our Lady of Perpetual Help. I love the Rosary. I have a beautiful icon of our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Kind of like Jesus opened my eyes this morning and pointed me in which direction to go: to surrender myself as a little child into the arms of His Mother who will teach me how to surrender in prayer and trust to God.