Stay connected with God

It has been almost a month now that we are at our new home and last Sunday, we finally googled the church nearest our home and went there for mass. It is the Mater Christi church, and it was a beautiful church which overlooked a lake. A very nice and serene place.


The name of the church struck a cord with me, Mater Christi meaning Mother of Christ. Mother Mary being so important to us and a role model for us to follow. At mass, Father shared about prayer. He mentioned that there were two types of prayer. One is the prayer of embrassement and the other being the prayer of hindsight. It is indeed an interesting way of looking at prayer.

The prayer of embrassement is really petitions. We ask God for something when we cannot obtain it on our own merit. Embrassed because we need to ask someone to get that particular something for us. As I pondered, it doesn't really seem to be an embrassing thing because we do it so very often. Sometimes, we do not even try ourselves and just go straight and ask God for it. I guess we need to include God in all that we do, but to jump straight to asking Him for stuff when we have not even tried to obtain it using the faculties that He has blessed us with is just wrong. We have probably been immuned to it that it does not seem embrassing to us...

Anyway, the prayer of hindsight really got me thinking... It facilitates the culture of reflection, as we think about the workings of God in our life, and it is through that where we realised that God has His hand in everything that we do. This is really a prayer of gratitude. I feel that I do reflect more nowadays and I must admit that I do see His hand moving in the events of my life, which sometimes scare me too. It's like you know He is directing you along life's journey but we need to be discerning to follow His lead. We need to stay connected to God all the time to know exactly where to go. What happens if we don't... I know that He will lead us back but I can't imagine having to always be on my toes and be aware of where He is leading me... It seems so tiring...

Well, I am really thankful that I am more aware of this now and I do pray that God will lead me and on my part, I will cooporate with Him. Grant me the strength to stay connected to you Lord.