“What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.” PeopleIfsFeelsDoeImportantValuesUnderstandingPrayerEffortClearDependsPrayingImportanceStriveBoredomAbandonAbandonedConsolationDistractedOur PrayersPersevereFidelity Author:Sheila Cassidy
“More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.” PeopleWayMadeCoursesJokesCleverVulnerableI Have LearnedAlmightyWoundedTranscendentFrailConcealing Author:Sheila Cassidy