Grace Lines

"Sometimes when I find myself spiritually in dryness so great that I cannot produce a single good thought, I recite very slowly an Our Father or a Hail Mary. These prayers alone console me. They nourish my soul."
St. Therese of Lisieux

For Reflection:
St. Therese of Lisieux reveals to us that she returned to vocal prayer when dryness attacked her time of prayer. What attitudes of heart and pious practice can I employ to make my vocal prayer effective and fervent, a suitable means of conversing with God when dryness affects my prayer time?

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Let's face it--it's NOT easy to "feel" God's prescence but it's vitally important that we do. We will all get to the end of the path one day and we'll all be judged on how we lived our life. Telling him the reason we didn't live our lives for Him was because we just weren't "feeling it" won't fly. It's hard though. Like my 5 year old daughter says to me often "I don't see Him! Where is He?" She's funny because she says this a lot. She's always been the child that needs the visual. She often will just pop and say out of no where when we are talking about God "But I don't see Him! Come out God! Where are you? Peek a book!" It's funny but it's also the way we all feel. We CAN'T see Him. It does make it hard. So we need to hold on to what we've got. If we have memories of feeling close to Him we need to hold on to them. If we have heard of miracles or have had prayers answered we need to keep records of them and recall them when life gets rough. When nothing else works we need to speak his name out loud because we can hear it. It's out there. It's real.