PRAYING THROUGH=THE DISTRACTIONS OF LIFE

 

PRAYING THROUGH THE DISTRACTIONS 

OF LIFE

My intentions

Are always GOOD

They are ALWAYS to

Spend time alone with God-and-

PRAY!-Pray!-pray!

But I have to tell you

Despite my intentions-it does

NOT always happen that way

THINGS happen-distractions set in

This happens-that happens-

Other things grab my attention

And BEFORE I know it

Before I am in the proper frame

Of mind

I am on to other things

“Do NOT FORGET

The works of the Lord”                                                         Psalm 78:7

We must REMEMBER

The works of the Lord

We MUST get ourselves

To that PROPER frame of mind

And PRAISE him at all times

ONE thing that I have come 

To do

IS to think of my whole life

As one big prayer

That way-whatever I am doing

I am conscious

That the Lord is with me

EVEN working for my good

In that situation

“But Martha was distracted

By ALL the preparations

That had to me made

She came to him and asked,

'Lord-don't you CARE

That my sister has left me

To do the work by myself?

TELL HER to help me!'

“'Martha-Martha,'-the Lord answered-

'You are worried and upset

About MANY things

But FEW things are needed-

Or indeed ONLY ONE

Mary has CHOSEN

What is better

And it will not be

Taken away from her'”                                                             Luke 10:40:42

MAYBE that is-in TODAY'S world too

Maybe we need to be

A little MORE Mary-and-a

LOT LESS Martha in our lives

CHOOSING to PRAY

Through the distractions of life

Nine hundred years ago

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux advised

The POPE how to KEEP

Spiritual focus in office

“I DESIRE indeed

That you should have peace

From distractions

But I don NOT want you

To make peace with them........”

I think sometimes OUR distractions

Are there for a REASON

Areas of our lives

That need attention

That NEED brought to God

“Listen-my sons-

To a father's instruction

Pay attention and gain understanding”                                         Proverbs 4:1

“WE must pay the

Most CAREFUL attention

Therefore-to what we have heard-

So that we do NOT drift away”                                                      Hebrews 2:1

Dear Lord-we PRAY

HELP US=at all times

To pray through

The DISTRACTIONS of life

And put you number 1

In our life=RIGHT

WHERE you ought to be

That way-we will FIND

The PEACE that we NEED

In our lives

Robert P. Wallman

1-11-17 and 1-13-2022

Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Amy Welborn