IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER IN A WORLD GONE MAD
With repentance, the changing of our ways, and the embrace of the commandments, prayer becomes, in this context, a vector of strength and grace to turn from the world’s enticements and whispers. Developing an interior life becomes the most significant endeavor of our entire existence.
It is a journey fraught with struggle and disturbances, but one to follow in order to know God and know peace. All souls who earnestly search for this truth will indeed find it in Him who is truth. There is something to search for that is true and not fictional. This is a refreshing realization in a world immersed in relativism where everyone’s “truth”is different and arguably correct. This, of course, is new Age nonsense, for indeed, if there is one thing that we can depend on, it is truth. Truth does exist, whether it be a medical, biochemical, or nutritional truths; it is hidden in all the data collected in the research. What we find as scientists may indeed be only partial truths, but we are, without a doubt, slowly uncovering the whole truth. So it is with the spiritual life; we search and find partial truths along the road of life, but never should we cease searching for we are looking for the fullness of truth by developing an interior life. A life lived on the surface, skimming, as it were, the sound bites of life, leaves us, in the end, empty and thirsty for more. The mystics tell us there are several truths about the interior life.