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How do you pray today? What do you pray for?
Dear Friends,
 A gentle Wednesday Forum today. It takes us right back to somewhere near the beginnings of the Catholica community on the old CathNews Discussion Board. I think it might be claimed that 911 played some part in the creation of our community. Way back then, and in the wake of the shock created by those events I organised a competition on the CNDB for readers to compose A Prayer for Our Time. The reflection above by Kate was one of the entries.
Perhaps you might use it in your personal reflection time today.Unfortunately we can't transmit the audio visual content by email but if your click HERE you can see Kate's prayer on our forum.
OUR COMMUNAL REFLECTION TODAY…
For our communal discussion though I'd pose a few questions:
Take yourself back five years … have the ways in which you pray changed in the last five years? Has the form of your prayer life changed? Do you pray in the same way, or a different way, to the way you prayed five years ago? Has your understanding of who you are praying to changed? Or has youR view of God stayed the same? How have you changed in the last five years? Do you pray about different things today that wouldn't have been on the agenda five years ago?
I know Kate's life has changed. She's a grandmother today — and becoming a grandparent, particularly one where you live in fairly close proximity to your grandchild and see them a lot, can bring about almost as dramatic a change in one's life as having one's own first child.
Yesterday Amanda and I had a few hours of tension waiting down at Westmead Hospital for the diagnosis from a Breast Screening examination. The results were negative and that was enormous relief for us. Now that we think about it, it's not just been a few hours, it's been a few week's we've been living with a "tension" we weren't living with five years ago. What if the results had gone the other way? We've both been through experiences where either Hughie, Life or "some nasty bastard" bowls up a few curly ones. That tends to alter one's "prayer life"!
In today's forum I invite you to share with us your thoughts on prayer today. If you were writing A Prayer for Our Time what would be some of the main agenda items in it? Have your self-understandings of prayer changed through recent experiences in your life, or from impacts coming from the wider world, or your deepening understanding of your relationship with this Mystery we try to describe with the too-simple word, God? <Join the conversation in our forum>
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