Thursday, December 27, 2012

Your Basic Prayer

PLEASE, help me find food and keep me warm and safe.
I'll always be good and kind...
Even if people consider themselves too sophisticated to say this, or maybe even allow themselves to think it, this is what is deep in their hearts or subconscious.

However, according to St. Theresa of Avila, it's stupid to pray for anything that is material.  God doesn't hear prayers that ask for material objects like money.  We should have it so ingrained in our consciousness and subconsciousness to know that God will provide our basic needs that we wouldn't feel the need to pray for substance.  We only pray for things that we feel we don't have.  We thank God for those things we have.

Hear us not when we ask Thee for honours, endowments, money, or anything that has to do with the world; but why shouldst Thou not hear us, Eternal Father, when we ask only for the honour of Thy Son, when we would forfeit a thousand honours and a thousand lives for Thy sake?  Not for ourselves, Lord, for we do not deserve to be heard, but for the blood of Thy Son and for His merits.
...St. Theresa of Avila