“Remember that not a single word is lost during prayer if you say it from your heart. God hears each word and weighs it in a balance. Sometimes, it seems to us that our words only strike the air in vain, and sound as a voice of one crying in the wilderness, no, no it is not so!….The Lord responds to every desire of the heart, expressed in words or unexpressed.”
I read this quote today on the blog, Mind in the Heart and felt glad. Sometimes it is all I can do to just remember that God knows me so intimately that all I have to do is whisper to Him and He will hear me. I take so many things onto my own inadequate shoulders and try to figure them out in my head and wonder how this and that and the other things are going to work out...
Not my job.
And sometimes I just need to remember that when I am not praying, there are people praying for me. My friends and family, my priest, monastics, the saints gone before, the Theotokos. The communion of Saints is not just a nice concept developed to give us the warm squishies. It's real. And it's amazingly comforting when I feel like all I can do is reason, rage or weep.
I am so thankful.
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