Thoughts

Oh God, I cannot grasp You,
I cannot hold You in my thoughts.
For I am just a little soul,
So I shall let you hold me in Yours.

Prayer

The Scriptures say to pray ceaselessly, but how are we to do this? Yes, we can pray through words, then thoughts, and then even deeds. Every smile can be a prayer, even every breath. But the essence is this: everything done through love is prayer, for to love is to commune with He who is Love. Thus we pray in thought when we love Him with all our mind and heart. We pray through words and deeds when we love Him with all of our souls and our strength. Love as much as you can to enter into ceaseless prayer, a constant communion with Christ.

Obedience

Obedience requires us to do many things we don't like - if not it would hardly be obedience.  So what we must like is the act of obeying itself, that obedience will always be sweet to us and God's Will more easily done.

Conformity

The first work of prayer is not to conform the world to our wills, nor even to conform the world to God's will.  The first work of prayer is to conform us to God's will.

Undo

You can never undo what you have done. Not even God undoes or redoes. This is what drives us to despair. But if you let Him, He can take even the greatest evils of your life and bring good from them. Do not despair, and do not forget. Forgive.