You know we might even have done this quote for the day before. . I know it's come up in conversation. . .
But it's so important. And it's a lesson I haven't learned yet.. and takes time to learn.. but experience keeps persuading me that it has to be learned..
And God keeps teaching us the lesson until we understand it.
Whenever it's a busy day the temptation is to cut down on the prayer time, nothing like maintaining it, far far from increasing it.
But it is prayer that enables us to succeed at what we do.
We can't do a full day of farm work without eating enough breakfast, or better yet.. We can't truly live without breathing, and prayer is like breathing. . .
Somehow or other, somewhere or other, the grace to take care of all the events of a busy day has to be gained. We gain grace by prayer and mortification -- or, through others prayers and mortification.
So someone has to do it. And God is careful not to let someone else do it all for us, when we do not ask enough.
God help me to learn how to pray!
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