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Quote for the Day:
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything
else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper
and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under
the sun, but - no time for prayer, the most important of all things,
the one great essential!

Oswald J. Smith

From "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"

Tuesday was the anniversary of Pope John Paul II and I had planned to send a card to commemorate the special event... but alas and alack.... I was just too tired too move, so anyway.. .... now that Pope John Paul is in heaven... what's a day or two when you have all of eternity?

Today was in the car and on the road day.. which as you can assume is not all that common for someone living in the monastery. But, Sister Colleen was off to a Poor Clare federation meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio and someone had to drive her to the airport. Did I volunteer? Hmmm, maybe, or was I volunteered? Hmmm. Whatever... that was a nice little morning drive at five in the morning. And then.. my mother had a doctor's appointment... the first in a series now as we try to get her a little more stablilized UTI wise. I wasn't looking forward to it... because it was at the hospital.. you know one of those huge conglomeration places with umpteem different buildings with convulted streets that get you there or not depending on how savy you are. I wasn't.

Anyway I survived. I didn't get a T shirt or anything but I survived. Next week they want me to do it twice more... In two different places. Don't they understand how stressfull this is to someone who gets lost going out the back door? Whatever. If you don't hear from me after next Thursday you know I will be still be driving around trying to find the place till the car runs out of gas or I hit somebody.

So... now it is time for prayer. I think I know how to get there.
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THE POWER OF PRAYER (Part Two)

By Bishop William S. Skylstad

If prayer is a relationship, how do we actually do it?

Remember that prayer is an invitation from God to us ? an invitation to spend time with him, to speak with honesty about our joys and our sorrows, our gratitude and our needs. Prayer is the activity that lets us reach out and touch God, and be touched in return.

The most important thing to remember is: To try to pray is to pray.

Keep in mind that there are as many ways to pray as there are people. Each of us speaks with a unique voice, whether we use our vocal cords or a computer keyboard. Some might place themselves before God with a full heart, brimming over with expressions of love, of gratitude, of need. Others come before God with a heart full of sorrow that simply cannot be articulated. They place themselves in God?s presence, offering up the feelings that they cannot put into words.

For prayer is not necessarily about words, or even an abundance of words. Sometimes it is enough to say, ?Help,? and at other times, to say, ?Thank you.? To say, ?O Lord, I love you. Help me love you more.?

From the Introduction for "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Blessings of Peace,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters

Sr Patricia