Prayer calms a heart. In prayer, I contemplate God, I set myself to his path, to his view. In prayer, I contemplate His face and can sunbath in his grace.
Thus, I can reflect from what I stare. Through prayer, God can slowly seep into my body, soul and spirit. I become even smaller, but he occupies a growing place in my life. The Lord is increasingly entering my heart.
He first heals all what is necessary to repair: old wounds, long-buried painful memories. He brings peace. Removes what is superfluous, everything that closes me from having relations.
Thus I am becoming more open to the neighbor. In my heart, there is increasing hope. Hope for those who have lost it and for all those who are beginning to lose it in their hopeless situations.
Through prayer, Lord is laying the love and compassion for the poor into my heart. He gives me the ingenuity that I can find the way to the close ones.
To see distress, where my eyes were previously closed for neighbours. Through prayer, the Lord is giving me courage to take a step towards our fellows. Thus, through my body He is stepping to the poor himself.
I am approaching in a way that the poor retains his dignity, to be felt respected. Through my eyes, he is observed by the love of God and through my hands he is fed by the Lord. As through the prayer only God could enter my heart.
Even through the work of Silva and Nace, we can see how practical and ingenious the love of God is. If He is allowed to enter into our lives.
By surrendering to His will, He puts us in the exact place in his creation that fits us best; the place where we can love at our fullest. Each one in his own status and in the way that the image of the Creator can best be reflected through us.
A prayer can be a gift. When I see someone in distress, I can bring this person to the Lord.
This is the concrete way how men approached this in the Gospel: »…and some people came carrying a crippled man on a mat. They tried to take him inside the house and put him in front of Jesus. But because of the crowd, they could not get him to Jesus. So they went up on the roof, where they removed some tiles and let the mat down in the middle of the room.« (Luke 5:18-19).
So can I, day by day, bring Jesus all the plight of people I may encounter. I ask for the blessing, thank You for this man, I commend you to God’s care.
Through praying I get new strength to forgive. When I was wounded, when I was affected by someone or some situation, then God enters my heart through prayer with His forgiveness and He can forgive inside me.
God is always new, a source of power that never fades away.
No matter what the situation, when one invites God, He enters with fresh forces of love and with new hope.
No matter how the situation in Europe looks today. If each of us in his daily prayer invites God to this situation, this will in very concrete way bring more of God to Europe and, therefore, more hope, more compassion, more forgiveness and more authentic relationships.
Even so, that I am a more compassionate, more open and more loving person to other people in need. Since God is Love, and a very concrete Love He is.