Minute Meditations

Prayer Provides an Anchor

Anchor laying next to a yellow buoy by the ocean

The great spiritual problem of the day is being “like fish out of water.” A life without spiritual regularity drifts through time with little to really hang onto when life most needs an anchor. Instead, we often get caught up in someone else’s agenda most of our lives. We put the cell aside for work and its never-ending deadlines. We forget the cell when we need it most and make play a poor substitute for thought and prayer. We think that we can run our legs off doing, going, finding, socializing, and still stay stolid and serene in the midst of the pressure of it all.

And then we think to ourselves, “There must be more to life than this.” But take heart: With God, there is. There always will be.

—from the book In God’s Holy Light: Wisdom from the Desert Monastics
by Sister Joan Chittister


In God's Holy Light | Franciscan Media
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