This is humanity at its most personal. George MacDonald October 21 God our Father, you never stop searching for all who have gone away from you. And by your forgiveness, you place on our finger the ring of the prodigal son, the ring of festival. There is nothing surprising about that. Through the face of a human being, especially when tears and sufferings have made it more transparent, it becomes possible to glimpse a reflection of the face of Christ himself.
Prayer is a serene force at work in human beings.
It keeps them from growing unfeeling in the face of the turmoils experienced by whole sectors of humankind. From it are drawn vital energies of compassion. In the course of our Christian life we are enabled to pass from one beginning to another beginning. But this process burns out if it does not draw its energy from an underground and almost intangible communion, the invisible presence of the Holy Spirit. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us.