P.S. I Love You

Prayer as simply defined by Fr. Thomas Green, SJ in his book Opening to God, is “The opening of our minds to God.” If I may add, prayer is not only opening of our minds to God but at the same time lifting our hearts to Him as well. It is in prayer that we are able to communicate and express our deepest thoughts and feelings to God. It is where we empty both our minds and hearts so that the spirit and love of God may dwell in us. Prayer in its highest form is our way of communing to God for us to think, see, feel and realize what God wanted us to do in our lives. 

Scriptures is one of the several names denoting the inspired writings which make up the Old and New Testament. The bible is a holy book where we can find all the stories about God from His commandments, teachings, miracles, sufferings, persecution and also stories of ordinary people just like us who have witnessed, followed and lived a life according to God’s perfect example.

It is through prayer that we offer and surrender everything to God and it is by reading the scriptures that we are able to get to know and discover our true God. Thus, we can say that prayers and scriptures are ways and means by which we can wholeheartedly fulfill our being of existence. We cannot just pray alone without getting to know who are we really praying for and we cannot just read the scriptures without emulating the life of God by living His holy teachings.

Every time I go to church on a Sunday, I consider it a blessed opportunity to be a part of a community of people that prays to God. As I pray with them, I can feel that there is great joy and love that overflows from each individual which I am very sure God feels very good about.

I remember in one of the books I have read entitled “Embraced by the Light” by Betty J. Eadie, she narrated how she witnessed people pray whereby she described it like a shooting star that goes up to heaven very fast in multitude because of millions of people pray. She said that our prayer can be immediately granted by God because He is bombarded with a lot of prayers. It will surely be an awe inspiring experience to witness how all our prayers go up to heaven being received by God.

On the other hand, one sad reality for many Catholics is that we rarely read the bible or perhaps we don’t read it at all. Maybe this is a reason why many of our fellow Catholics were converted to other faiths because of the lack of knowledge of who God really is in the context of our Catholic faith.  Again, we cannot just pray without reading the Scriptures and we cannot just read the Scriptures without praying at all.

Time and again, we are all invited to get to know God deeply by reading and studying the Holy Scriptures coupled it with our sincere and utmost prayer to God that we may reveal through our words and actions that we really and truly love God above all everything.

P.S. I love you just like in a love letter will be our last but the sweetest words we will utter to God because we truly believe that He is alive as it is the ultimate desire of our heart and soul to be with Him one day in His beautiful place called heaven.

P.S. I LOVE YOU LORD!