BRILLIANT MUSIC FROM AUSTRALIA

Treat yourself to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NilHdbxQZ7Q to see and hear oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros and friends making fabulous music. Then maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEM-ieW-ECw&feature=related

NOT AS EASY AS PUSHING A BUTTON

Not that simple, is it? You can’t just push a button and, bingo, prayer happens. The picture is not meant to suggest that sort of simplicity, but it is meant as a helpful idea.
The spiritual life is essentially our response to the constant flowing of God’s grace in our lives. Prayer is our conscious opening of our souls to that grace and responding to it. We are told to pray constantly, but we are all imperfect and forgetful. We need to constantly remind ourselves to be prayerfully open to the Spirit.
That’s where the button idea comes in. It is a time-lag or fader button. You might enter a dark apartment block at night and push such a button to turn on the lights. If you just watch the button you will see it slowly come back out and the lights go off, but of course the idea is to move to your apartment before the lights go off.
The prayer-reminder button works something like that. God’s grace is there for us constantly, but when we “fade to off” we need to push our internal reminder button to consciously, prayerfully “reconnect” with the energy supply for our journey.
If you like this “reminder button” idea, please tell someone else about it.