OM SAIRAM: Prayerful ADVENT !!!

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Prayerful ADVENT !!!

How to Have a
Prayerful Advent !!!
Each year I make plans for a prayerful Advent.
It never works out quite the way I hope, though.You see, much of my December is filled with backstage
work for my daughter’s Nutcracker performances.
Life gets busy -and then busier- and though I set aside
time in the mornings to pray, sometimes the frenetic pace of
the day outstrips whatever peace and focus I started with.

But I suspect that thinking of prayer like a gas station,
as a place I go and fuel up so I can drive through the rest
of the day, is a bad analogy. Prayer could be more like
solar power, permeating all that I do, everywhere I go.
There is absolutely nothing (other than my forgetfulness
and distraction) preventing me from praying as I stitch up costumes. There’s no one saying, “No! Don’t pray for
the people you work with while you’re working!”
There’s no sign in the wings of the theater forbidding
me from whispering blessings upon the dancers.

I can have a prayerful Advent
if I have a prayerful mind-set.
You can, too. Shall we try?
By Julia Attaway,

May God Bless You, Your Family and
Your Friends the Way He Has Blessed Us.