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By Paul Bommer
I am reminded that many spiritual masters, including Thomas Merton, remind us that we are always beginners. That helped me to make my commitment for Lent--to meditate for 20 minutes upon rising each morning.
That had been a regular discipline for the past few years, even while I visited my daughter MJ in Spain. However, the trip to Russia in November where I injured my right shoulder brought forth a disruption from that schedule that seemed difficult for me to circumvent. During all that time of pain, I would have assumed that I would pray more than usual, but did not do so. There were times of pleas for aid and thanksgiving, but little time was spent in silent prayer.
Our priest reminded us on Ash Wednesday that our Lenten discipline is to pray Psalm 51:10:
Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.
These 40 days are to commit that prayer into our lives. One step for me is to sit in silence with God every morning on awaking.
Today was the third day of doing this. I found that I awoke, yearning to pray. Remember the old adage? The more one prays, the more one will want to!
2 comments:
Interesting that several of us seem to be writing about prayer and pain.
I hope you're feeling better, Jan.
Hello Jan, and thank you for your comment on my blog. I've just been perusing your latest posts and came to this one. Psalm 51, and especially this verse, is the one that brought me into the Kingdom (gosh, was it really 37 years ago!) when it spoke to me so loudly one afternoon...and I not much interested in God and especially Jesus in those days. But I wanted to be a good person, and this became the cry of my heart. Two years later I finally found my way home!
Lenten blessings to you. I will try to visit more often; it has been too long.
Sara
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