Prayer Does Not Go To Waste

O my God! Source of all mercy! I acknowledge Your sovereign power. While recalling the wasted years that are past, I believe that You, Lord, can in an instant turn this loss to gain. Miserable as I am, yet I firmly believe that You can do all things. Please restore to me the time lost, giving me Your grace, both now and in the future, that I may appear before You in "wedding garments." Amen.

~ St. Teresa of Avila

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A panoramic framed scenic photograph of the first light morning sun illuminating the fall colors on the tree tops under the blue sky. Each tree is a different color and shape, and the light illuminates each a bit different. Such it is with our lives and our prayers, and the way that God responds to each.

Some time ago I had a spiritual director who shared with me how our prayers don’t go to waste. How the reason we are here now is to pray for such a time as this, and future generations, and to continue for the prayer warriors who did so before us.

Sometimes our prayers, with good intentions, don’t seem to make a dent in things, other times we see change, and yet other times prayers are meant to change us to see God’s wisdom in each matter.

But the important thing is that, no matter how God responds, He gives us the power of prayer as a secret weapon that goes beyond human understanding. When we pray, we are making an appeal vertically for everything we are dong horizontally. Other times God may put it on our hearts to pray for a matter.

When it comes to our needed prayers, at least for me, it is very comforting to know that others care enough to appeal to God on my / our behalf. This is called intercessory prayer, and we do this for each other as well as appeal to Mary with the Rosary and to the Saints to plead with God on our behalf.

For example, there is this belief in politics these days of what is called the silent majority. This is when people don’t say or show who they support or will vote for. However, when it comes to our faith and prayer, there has been a silent majority through prayer for ages … you might also call this the wireless connection to God.

So it is important to pray for each other, because we need each other, and our prayers do not go to waste.



This is part of the Same Subject Different Day Gallery Collection.


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