TIME TO PRAY=AND REFLECT

 

TIME TO PRAY=AND REFLECT

 

The saying goes

There is=

A time for everything=

So that means=there are TIMES

We need to

PRAY AND REFLECT too

 

If for no other reason

Than OUR Jesus did it

TAKE TIME=for what

Really MATTERS IN LIFE

 

“AT SUNSET=al who had people sick

With various diseases-

Brought them to him

 

He laid his hands

On each of them=AND CURED THEM……..

 

At daybreak

Jesus left=and went

To a deserted place”                                                                                                      Luke 4:40, 42

 

“There is a TIME

For everything=and a season

For every activity=Under the heavens”                                                                                  Ecclesiastes 3:1

 

Jesus had had

A very long day=that stretched

INTO a very long night

 

It seemed that

The arrival of the people

HE HAD TO HEAL=was endless

 

When the morning sun rose

JESUS WAS SPENT=a feeling

We all have

From time to time

 

He knew he NEEDED TIME

To restore and be still

 

He knew it was time

TO PRAY AND REFLECT!

 

If Jesus could do it

WE ALL=can do it

We can all

TAKE THE TIME

TO PRAY AND REFLECT!

 

“My servant Job=WILL PRAY

For you

 

And I will accept

HIS PRAYER

And not deal with you

According to your folly”                                                                                                        Job 42:8

 

“Then Jesus

Went with his disciples

To a place called Gethsemane

 

And he said =to them

‘Sit here=while I go over there

AND PRAY’”                                                                                                                                  Matthew 26:36

 

“Therefore confess your sins-

To each other

AND PRAY=for each other

So that=you may be healed

 

THE PRAYER

Of a righteous person

Is powerful and effective”                                                                                                     James 5:16

 

Sometimes=Like Jesus

We have to LEAVE

The crowd behind

 

We have to take some time

AND PRAY AND REFLECT=

NOT only for others=which is great

But for ourselves too

 

May we be=of SERVICE for others

And treat them with COMPASSION

 

And really take some TIME out

AND PRAY AND REFLECT=for others

And ourselves

 

In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our FOREVER PRAYING=Holy Father God!

 

Robert P. Wallman

8-30-2022

 

 

Ps       INSPIRED=by an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.