Today’s question: LISTEN: WHAT IS GOD PRESENTING TO YOU IN PRAYER TODAY?
This is Day 18 of the 5-week Lenten journey with The Society of Saint John the Evangelist and their daily meditation on TIME.
See Br. Jim Woodrum on the video (1:58) below, or to leave comments on the Brothers' website, go here. (http://ssje.org/ssje/2015/03/06/pray-7-present)
If you want to share the youtube video, the link is: http://youtu.be/un_DB8jnTRg
If you comment on social media, please use hashtag #ssjetime or #present
Question: LISTEN: WHAT IS GOD PRESENTING TO YOU IN PRAYER TODAY?
Transcript of Video:
I think, before I became a monk and came here to the Monastery, I think that I tried to pray but it was usually in reference to a need I think that I had, and it was something very specific and in front of my face. And now, as a monk, on this side, I have learned so much more about prayer and how it’s actually what God is presenting to me. That there tends to be – when something comes up, I tend to think that it’s God making me aware of something that I need to be aware of. And it doesn’t come through a booming voice; it comes very subtly. It comes through a relationship; it comes through an idea; it comes through something I’ve heard in Scripture in church – that I may have read a piece of Scripture a million times and all of sudden something pops out and clicks. And maybe it’s because of the situation that I’m in at the time that it all of a sudden speaks to me, where it didn’t before. So I’m aware of how, you know, before it was about me coming to God. And now I realize how much God is coming to me and saying, “Here, I want to talk to you about this,” and it just becomes present, it comes into my scope of vision. It’s not like I go and search it out; it comes and finds me.
-Br. Jim Woodrum
Blessings on our journey to re-order time in our lives,
Agatha