With and In God:

God is within us and we are in God, and therefore we are in one another. This connection is not conscious. We have our own egos and our own self-knowledge, history and story. Rather, this connection is a unification of the human element in us all, spread forth from the past to the present and to the future, the living essence of God and the mystical within.

Prayer - Jesus:

Jesus, the Son of God always found time to be by Himself to pray. He never lost the focus of His Mission of saving the world. When we serve God do we allow our work to take control of us e.g. fighting for our rights and our ideas? Do we forget the real purpose of serving God through His people?

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It is above all on days of weariness, sickness, impatience, temptation, spiritual dryness and trials, during hours of sometimes horrible anguish which press upon a soul, that holy abandonment is most pleasing to God.

- Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923)