Tuesday, December 1

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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
John Bunyan

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Gospel . . . LK 10:21-24
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”

Turning to the disciples in private he said,
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”
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The word of the Lord
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A friend of mine took his small son with him to town one day to run some errands. When lunch time arrived, the two of them went to a familiar diner for a sandwich. The father sat down on one of the stools at the counter and lifted the boy up to the seat beside him. They ordered lunch, and when the server brought the food, the dad said, "Son, we'll just have a silent prayer." Dad got through praying first and waited for the boy to finish his prayer, but he just sat with his head bowed for an unusually long time.

When he finally looked up, his father asked him, "What in the world were you praying about all that time?" With the innocence and honesty of a child, he replied, "How do I know? It was a silent prayer."

I’m not so sure the young boy’s intention with the prayer but I think that it could well be good practice to get lost in our prayer from time to time, to allow prayer to meander wherever it might like to go, providing, of course, that we keep the prayer focused on God.

Have you prayed already today? It’s certainly not too late. You ever ask God, in your prayer, where God might like you to go in prayer? Try it sometime.
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