Youth is the time when we learn lessons about love, hope, mercy. Youth is the time when learn lessons about goodness, kindness, faith. Youth is the time when we learn about God. Youth is the time when prayers begin to shape each individual life. How we view the world through the prism of faith and love, tinting all with rainbow colors. Our prayers become a creation of its own, private and tender, where we ask for strength and patience to do good, to be kind; where we sometimes wish for an immediate response from some magic wand; prayer allows us to enter into its realm of the beautiful, the prudent and the magnificent; prayer teaches patience, acceptance, understanding. Within honest and sincere prayer resides heroic love for God, a desire to love all mankind, fairly and unconditionally not desiring anything in return. Over time prayer allows and helps each individual to improve both their thoughts and actions. Prayer does not label anything prosaic. Prayer does not banish anything from our minds. Prayer can be a place where we search for the peaceful, the nourishing, the compassionate. Within youthful prayers, faith encourages us to be brave, to honor God and his commandments, to be heroic for God by pledging our lives to doing his work. Prayer becomes a gateway to loving and serving God.
Today, the secular world presents a kaleidoscope of possibilities of life gradually hypnotizing or numbing the collective minds of our society. Human existence is reduced to commercial slogans seen on television, heard on the radio. The stern realities of life are hidden behind neon lights, crowded restaurants, movies with computer generated special effects. The secular world does not want us to mature. The secular world is afraid of religion. The secular world is afraid of Christians. As Catholics our eyes must remain open to the secular world and our hearts must remain open and filled with prayer. Human existence does have a purpose beyond purchase power, beyond pride. Human existence should encourage each one of to offer prayers to God, thanking him for the gift of life, the gift of faith, the gift of love. The thoughtful Christian realizes that to God we are always youthful and that our prayers will be always youthful. Each day questions will flash in our mind, “How can I serve God?” or “Am I able to do a little more?” or “Is this enough? How can I offer my life to God?” The various choices appear like gates at a busy international airport, announcing distant, foreign destinations in places unknown, unchartered.
Prayer presents different various views of ourselves and our lives. Prayer is a picture of an instance in time. Sometime the same instance is replayed again and again. The triumph of prayer occurs when we are able to see goodness, kindness, mercy, hope, love previously unseen or unfelt within ourselves or others. Prayer is the soldier, the statesman, the diplomat, the physician, and architect of the soul. Prayer leads us to God. Prayer can leads us to avocations and vocations. Prayer reminds us that as individuals each of our actions are important both to ourselves and to the human race. Prayer can help us to act with love and compassion, to provide examples of faithful service to God.
Prayer connects us all as votaries, contributing to comfort and peace for all mankind in our own individual ways as benefactors of God’s love and kindness. Each day we must offer prayers of praise and thanks to God!
Our ambitions should lead us to humility, to being servants of the Lord.
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