By His Request

Prayer is an attitude: knowing God will hear because He has invited you to ask, and knowing God will answer because He delights in being Father.

God, infinitely perfect and blessed in Himself, in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created me to draw and empowered me to share in His own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to me. He calls me to seek Him, to know Him, to love Him with all my soul. He calls me together with all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of His family, the Church.

The wonder of prayer is reveled beside the well where we come seeking water. There Jesus comes to meet every human being. It is He who first seeks us and asks for a drink. His asking arises from the depths of God’s desire for us. Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours – God thirsts that we may thirst for Him.

“My people have done two things wrong. They have abandoned me, the fountain of life-giving water. They have also dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that can’t hold water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)

Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to the plea of the living God: “They have forsaken Me, the fount of living water…” Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only true God. (St. Bonaventure)