Daily communion with God helps us give ourselves to him at the beginning of each day without reserve. By being faithful to daily prayer, all other duties and responsibilities fall into place. Open lines of communication with God help us to be less concerned about disruptive or delightful events of the day or that which happened in our past or may happen in our future. God will be with us through the incidents in our lives as a loving father is with his child. Of this we are assured because in retrospect, when we look closely, we can see everything that happens to us as a blessing.
Blessings come in a myriad of colors.
Almost anything can expand our capacity to be filled with Christ s love and the ability to pass his love to others. Anything can serve as a wrapping for grace. John Chrysostom once said that Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness and depression of the soul. As we look into the treasures of prayer we might blush as we reflect how we foolishly bypassed our time for prayer or neglected to appreciate the treasures of that gift. No matter how busy our days, we must realize that prayer is our lifeline to God.