Mental Prayer Meditation Helps
Presence of God
Grace I Ask: To see the ugliness of divorce.
The Idea: When a couple gets married with the idea that they want only pleasure and enjoyment and self-indulgence, sooner or later they become greatly disillusioned. They soon find marriage is like all else in life: you get out what you put in.
Such people are emotional children who face problems like children. They run away. They want for themselves: they disregard consequences: a partner abandoned and endangered by great temptations; children set adrift without home or guide, God's gifts thrown to the winds.
My Personal Application: Am I convinced of the evil of divorce? If not, I wonder whether my emotions have kept pace with my age? Was Christ serious? -"What God has joined together, let no man put asunder."
Do the marriage vows mean anything? - "... until death do us part."
When I take on a responsibility, do I mean to follow it to the end no matter what the cost? Am I willing to pay the price for the joys of marriage? God entrusted children to parents; can the parents keep that trust?
I Speak to God: Dear God, help me now, long before I get emotionally involved in difficulties, to keep my promises, to shoulder my responsibilities. Help me to face coolly and calmly the difficulties of marriage, and then, if I want to bear them, accept them forever. I want to realize that in the Sacrament of Matrimony I get special grace to live that life. Teach me to call on that grace.
Thought tor Today: "Lord, that I may see."
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Adapted from Mental Prayer, Challenge to the Lay Apostle
by The Queen's Work,(© 1958)
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