Difficulties in Prayer

Prayer is about making a relationship with God. like all relationship it has its ups and downs and we have to work at it, as with a good close human relationship.

In prayer God often tells what He wan from us but we don’t want to listen. Instead we demand from God what we want – but its what He wants that matters. God sees our life to its end ,as we can’t .

If we study Jesus praying in the Gospels we see Him refreshing Himself in prayer, struggling in Gethsemane to accept the burden of our sins at His crucifixion and asking for forgiveness for others

Prayer is not always easy – we have to fight our weariness , accept blankness and misery , remembering how Jeus suffered , thinking that God had forsaken Him.

The secret of Prayer is Perseverance.

Alexandra Cottrell, relecting on Augustine Hoey, Leaves from the Tree of Heaven