God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment to love my Lord my God with all my heart. I dont want the reputation that I love God I dont want to write songs about loving God I dont want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and its real.

Dear GodI hurt. Please hold me.Amen

The practice of the presence of God though we begin it at special times of prayer is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

For Mercier it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer the ringing of the bell the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw he attended early mass at a small church near the apartment once or twice a month confessing to his vocational sins duplicity for example in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. Hed grown up an untroubled believer but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter But in time he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding and prayed for those hed lost for those he loved and for an end to evil in the world. Alan Furst The Spies of Warsaw

Let us live this day in that light that life and that peace so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.

O God make me worthy of this calling that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

Prayer for todayDear Lord the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please give me some meditative wisdom.

I also learned that prayer is not as much about getting God to act in certain ways as it is about getting to the heart of God and getting my heart to reflect His heart.

All the seeming coincidences .... were actually God catching me in his arms.