Today I saw a particular homeless woman who again here I'll call "Sally." Sally and I were talking about praying when we are crying.
Sally shared with me, "I've heard, and I've thought it too, that tears are liquid prayers, when we feel like we don't know what else to say to our Creator."
I responded, "You know, it's really appropriate that you say that today. At Mass today, one of the Bible verses that was read was about how, when we don't know how to pray, the Spirit in us expresses in groans for us what we feel we don't know how to say."*
If we feel we don't know how to pray, we can simply offer our emotions up to God. We can cry to God and offer our tears as loving prayers to God. With these tears, we can offer wordless prayers to God, to express what we feel we cannot put into words.
And for what we feel we cannot articulate in words in prayers, the Holy Spirit prays in us, in groans we feel we do not know how to utter ourselves. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to us** to help us to pray to our Heavenly Father. Indeed, our Heavenly Father has sent the Holy Spirit upon us,*** since our Heavenly Father is compassionate about how we express ourselves.
God knows we do not always have words for Him. God accepts our wordless prayers when they are offered in humility. God feels our tears, and hears them as prayers, when they are offered out of love of Him.
Let us cry to God, then. Let us offer how we feel to God, crying out to Him to help us understand how much He loves us. Amen.
* Romans 8:26
** John 16:7
*** John 14:26
Sally shared with me, "I've heard, and I've thought it too, that tears are liquid prayers, when we feel like we don't know what else to say to our Creator."
I responded, "You know, it's really appropriate that you say that today. At Mass today, one of the Bible verses that was read was about how, when we don't know how to pray, the Spirit in us expresses in groans for us what we feel we don't know how to say."*
If we feel we don't know how to pray, we can simply offer our emotions up to God. We can cry to God and offer our tears as loving prayers to God. With these tears, we can offer wordless prayers to God, to express what we feel we cannot put into words.
And for what we feel we cannot articulate in words in prayers, the Holy Spirit prays in us, in groans we feel we do not know how to utter ourselves. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to us** to help us to pray to our Heavenly Father. Indeed, our Heavenly Father has sent the Holy Spirit upon us,*** since our Heavenly Father is compassionate about how we express ourselves.
God knows we do not always have words for Him. God accepts our wordless prayers when they are offered in humility. God feels our tears, and hears them as prayers, when they are offered out of love of Him.
Let us cry to God, then. Let us offer how we feel to God, crying out to Him to help us understand how much He loves us. Amen.
* Romans 8:26
** John 16:7
*** John 14:26
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