COVID 19 Pandemic Prayer

Ask, Seek, Knock, Trust

   

“This is what God asks of you: trust in the one whom he has sent, alleluia.”    

[Antiphon for the Canticle of Mary, Evening Prayer Week III]

During this COVID Crisis TRUSTING that the Lord is with us is hard to do, so we must give every day to God and do God’s will as best we can.  St. Luke tells us, "For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and the one who knocks, the door will be opened."  [Luke 11: 1-13]

A woman asks, "Please, God, cure me of my cancer."  In dealing with her illness, she has accepted her mortality.  She comes to cherish each moment she has.  Her relationship with her husband becomes stronger; she grows closer to her children, especially one daughter from whom she had become increasingly distant.  The disease runs its course - but she learns to live her life to the full and she spends every moment to the end in the embrace of her loving family.  And it is that love that she leaves behind.  She asks - and she receives insight, understanding and peace.

   

Jesus teaches to Ask, Seek, Knock, often His answer is not what we asked for and we must decide to accept His answer and enrich our lives with Him or get annoyed with the Lord and ask Him what are You doing? 

We often approach prayer as trying to wring gifts from an unwilling God; in fact, we come before a God who knows our needs better than we do ourselves. That's the disciple's faith: to TRUST enough to continue to act in the spirit of Jesus' servanthood, to continue to seek God in hidden places with the assurance that, in someone or something, we will find him.  [Ask / Seek / Knock  Connections -- JULY 2016]

 

Prayer is the awareness of God as the source of all that is good and the ultimate fulfillment of our life's journey.  [Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray.]

Trust that God is with you on this COVID 19 Journey, give the Lord your worries, your anxious thoughts and your fears.  God will put them on the Cross with His Son.  Use this pandemic pause in your life to grow more deeply in love with God and to abandon your will for His, TRUST Him.

May God Be Praised!