Mtr Taylor Devine

Dear Friend,

The Office Gospel for today is a "parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart" - how nice of the Gospel writer to let us know up front! There's a persistent Widow who begs an unjust judge, and there's the promise that God's justice will be greater and freer and far better than this judge's.

The trouble is we've all had days like the Psalmist has in Psalm 102,
Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come before you;
hide not your face from me in the day of my trouble.
Incline your ear to me;
when I call, make haste to answer me,
For my days drift away like smoke,
and my bones are hot as burning coals.
My heart is smitten like grass and withered,
so that I forget to eat my bread.

Days where we feel like the persistent one who desperately needs to be heard, days where we lose heart.

When reminded to "pray always and to not lose heart" I hope this day we don't hear an admonition to somehow avoid those days, but when they come may we hear an invitation to that deep prayer that is sometimes silence, is sometimes "help," but is somehow rest in the Almighty.

In Christ,
Mtr Taylor