Getting sick sometimes make us forget saying our daily prayers. You want to pray but feel disinclined, bothered by whatever is ailing you at the moment. You think of God, you call on Him but it's not the usual prayer that you do. It is a harried prayer and all you can think of is the pain or fever wracking your body.
Have you ever considered your sick moments as a time to listen to Him? Maybe, it's His way of making us stop and seek His council.
Message for June 6, 2011.
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Praying should be a regular activity that doesn't depend on your mood and your health. If you don't feel like praying and succumb to what you feel, you forfeit the blessings intended for you on that day.
Pray even if you are physically weak. The more you should try harder to pray. A few minutes of talking with Me will suffice. A "thank you" and "forgive me Lord" will make My heart happy knowing that you still remember Me.
Rosaries and novenas cannot be said properly and devotedly when someone is in pain, so it is a time for you to listen to Me. Praying is not always mumbling memorized prayers. There should also be a time for Me to speak and you to listen. That is why you are sometimes made to be sick because it is only the time supposedly that you are laid back on your bed with your eyes up to Me.
But then sick people are more worried about their health, their medicines, their finances that they seldom find time for Me in their supine position. Instead of relying on My providence they still insist on relying on their own strength, finances, relatives and friends.
I wonder why it is so difficult for some to trust and call on Me? They depend on themselves and other people who are just mortals like them, why not Me?
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