Why Do WE need to pray?

Prayer is born of a longing, a need. We are empty and long to be filled. We seek solace in things and relationships until they all fail us. Eventually, we know only God can fill us.

We have no choice but to pray because our other choices, the choices born of our well-intentioned but puny intellectual efforts to know God, are hopelessly inadequate. Prayer, then, in its simplest form is any conscious attempt to experience the presence of God.

But this is only the beginning. As we seek through prayer to know God, our awareness of God as us increases and expands. And as prayer fills us more and more, we become more and more aware of the experience of being part of God. This means that as we pray, we are drawn inexorably into the creative flow of the universe, so that we begin perceiving things not with human eyes or human ears or human minds but from the absolute core of us—the divinity within us. As we approach this point in our prayer life, the emphasis of our prayers begins to make a subtle shift.

Rather than praying to God to help us or for God to be with us, we begin praying from that sacred presence which is our very essence. So we can say, then, that when we pray, we are lifting our personal identity to a higher awareness—the awareness that it is God that is praying! When we pray, it is the mind of God seeking to fulfill itself as us.

So the longing that we feel to “come home” to Spirit is Spirit Itself calling us to awaken, to open our hearts and see what is in there, and once having seen, to let It come forth into our everyday world.

( article taken from : unity.org)

BACK TO ROSE GARDEN

" Beware of the BARENESS of a busy Life"

A snare from the enemy, misleading you , taking your time away from your family, lies that you need more money to survive...etc...( in some form of material responsibilities) most of importantly it robs away quality time for yourself and your GOD...all because of a race, This prevent you to enrich your soul.
After all, DO we really need to compete with the world? "

if we can think of 5 reasons why? then maybe it is time for us to ask God for guidance and help we're merely living a lie even if we have good intentions, it is a fact that when we try to compete with the world , spending sleepless nights and bareness weariness of the day, it is a sign that we are slowly drifting away from him. To free us from useless enticement so we can live simply , trusting and generous with our time to the people that matters most.

We are all guilty of these and it's never too late to start and be aware of the loop and the scary snare we are getting into...money,depression,voidness, weariness and incompleteness.

The Rosary helps us in reminding how the passion of christ was when we become tired and helpless.

The Rosary doesn't necessarily grant any material wishes but we grow in virtue and that was the promise, WHICH TO ME IS THE GREATEST GIFT to us christians, I for one is a living witness on how my heart became meek and grateful. I pray for everyday that I will always remember this. Never to get carried away because we should always be vigilant of our faith. IT has to be nourished everyday, whenever it is possible. Whenever you have idle time, try to find time thinking about God so we can grow deeper in our faith, sometimes it even takes a life time. ;)