Meet Christ through Prayer

Where does prayer come from?  Saint Therese said it comes from the heart. It must surge from it. Surge? What does that mean? A surge is a sudden powerful forward on an upward movement.

How does this surge happen? This surge of the heart, in all its humility, desires to be in heaven. That is why Saint Therese said it is a “simple look turned toward heaven”. It is the look of a child toward his father – simple, humble and full of hope.

Also, this surge of the heart is a cry of recognition and of love. When we cry, it is either we are in need of something, like an infant in need of his food; or we are in ecstasy of joy like a mother being reunited with her lost child. As prayer is a cry of recognition and of love, it might be that there is both a need and a satisfaction in man of recognition and of love from the Father. God’s recognition of love for us makes us both hungry for more and at the same time filled with contentment.

Lastly, this surge of the heart stretches us to embrace both trial and joy. Since prayer is a sudden powerful forward of the heart toward God, then we are able to accept anything that happens to our lives for we are sure it would bring us to Him. When we are in prayer, we get to acknowledge who God is and what God can do; and because of what we are able to accept and  moreover,  endure all things that come from Him as His will for our souls, be it trial or joy.

Prayer must become very personal to us. When we come in prayer, we must be our very self, our whole being in front of God. Our prayer pushes us to an ever more intimate relationship with God in a desire to be in eternity with Him.

Resources:
The New Evangelization Resource Book (NERB)

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