Christ’s communication with His father and our communication with God is in the process of prayer.
Christ’s activity with His father was based on prayer. Jesus in the Gospels, goes off on his own, on many occasions, to a quiet place, on a mountain, by a lake, in a garden, to pray. To share with His father what had happened, what was about to happen, to seek guidance. It was a communication that strengthened and renewed.
Jesus’ example of a prayer life shows us that prayer is not just about asking but also about sharing, and sharing our true feelings.
The prayer of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus asks if it is “possible to let this cup pass me by”, shows how we too can share our true feelings even though we know we have to go through whatever faces us, but strengthened to do so by our communication, by being in the presence, by experiencing, being held and loved, being close to and at peace in God.
Glenn Lowde (first published in 2008)
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