By Richardson P csc –
Readings: Is 55: 10-11; Mt 6: 7-15
The liturgy of the day invites me to relate with God constantly in prayer. Prayer is a tool that is given for me to relate with God regularly in life. In life often I tend to worry about how to pray and how to use colorful words in my prayers.
Today, Jesus tells me that what matters in prayer are not many words, but the quality of prayer. Quality of prayer mainly focuses on experience and heartfelt emotional words of a person. It assists a person to go closer to God with faith and trust. Jesus reminds me to have a quality of prayer in order to open myself freely to God in dialogue and ask him to grant what is really necessary for me to live my daily life. Jesus assures me that the quality of prayer will help me to change certain attitudes and behavior in life. As I am in the season of lent, he encourages me to spend more time in prayer as he encouraged his disciples to pray to the Father in solitude.
The Lord’s Prayer gave the disciples a separate identity, as children of a loving Father. Whenever I pray the Lord’s Prayer, I also experience the same identity and relationship. God reminds me that the prayers that I whisper in his ears in words return to me as joy and happiness.