Daily mass and then breakfast with my Dad felt like a prayer today as the Holy Spirit was with us, speaking and listening through each of us while we enjoyed pancakes and the best strawberry-blueberry jam. We received a little wink from God when the song my Dad had been raving about came on the restaurant's playlist not fifteen minutes after he mentioned it. God is so fun sometimes. :)
This was a timely episode for me. A couple of connections and observations in the past few days really perked up my prayer brain (or heart, I suppose.) On Monday, I was on the phone with a contractor who worked on our house last year. I needed him to fix something, and unsolicited, he went into a rambling story about a terrible accident he was in last year. I had wondered what was going on with him and frustrated that the work took so long (though he wasn't the one doing the actual labor). The surprise conversation was a good boost to my "you never know what someone is going through" mentality.
I sometimes become disheartened by my lack of prayer because this time in my life is very full. But then I have these prayerful moments when I slow down to notice the world around me or make connections between occurrences in my daily life. Those are indeed holy moments of prayer if we're willing to listen for God.
Hi Mary, thanks for your comment! How beautiful that the Holy Spirit was working in the midst of your everyday phone conversation. God is so good like that! Blessings on you and your house, too <3
Daily mass and then breakfast with my Dad felt like a prayer today as the Holy Spirit was with us, speaking and listening through each of us while we enjoyed pancakes and the best strawberry-blueberry jam. We received a little wink from God when the song my Dad had been raving about came on the restaurant's playlist not fifteen minutes after he mentioned it. God is so fun sometimes. :)
This was a timely episode for me. A couple of connections and observations in the past few days really perked up my prayer brain (or heart, I suppose.) On Monday, I was on the phone with a contractor who worked on our house last year. I needed him to fix something, and unsolicited, he went into a rambling story about a terrible accident he was in last year. I had wondered what was going on with him and frustrated that the work took so long (though he wasn't the one doing the actual labor). The surprise conversation was a good boost to my "you never know what someone is going through" mentality.
I sometimes become disheartened by my lack of prayer because this time in my life is very full. But then I have these prayerful moments when I slow down to notice the world around me or make connections between occurrences in my daily life. Those are indeed holy moments of prayer if we're willing to listen for God.
Hi Mary, thanks for your comment! How beautiful that the Holy Spirit was working in the midst of your everyday phone conversation. God is so good like that! Blessings on you and your house, too <3