This week I share some words of wisdom on the power of prayer, from Julian of Norwich. These pearls of wisdom made their way into my inbox today, as a reflection for Mark’s Gospel, first chapter, versus 29-39. Enjoy and blessings on your week ahead!
“Very early before dawn, Jesus… went off to a deserted place, where he prayed”
| Prayer unites the soul to God, for though the soul may be always like God in nature and in substance restored by grace… Then prayer is a witness that the soul wills as God wills, and it eases the conscience and fits us for grace. And so Jesus teaches us to pray and to have firm trust that we shall have it; for Jesus beholds us in love, and wants to make us partners in his good will and work..And so the soul by prayer is made of one accord with God. |
| …For the whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray, wonderfully rejoicing with reverent awe, and with so much sweetness and delight in God that we cannot pray all except as God moves us at the time. And well I know that the more the soul sees of God the more she desires God by grace. |
Keeping the Faith 