Riding the elevator at the Medical Center today one of the woman told the other woman and myself how glad she was to see the sun today. We all agreed. I had planned to do some work outside today getting the garden ready. However, between a prayer vigil for a homicide victim, faith sharing, doctor’s appointment, a few phone calls and emails it was nearly five o clock when my African niece called and came over to pick up her mail. I decided to watch national news at 5: 30pm and then go outside. But by that time the sun was fading away and the weather man says it will stay away for three more days of cloudy and rain.
An internal sunny experience was our faith sharing conversation this morning. The question for reflection was “How do we pray?” The question brought out some deep insights of how each one of finds prayer, from repetitive prayer to praying with the five senses of the imagination.
I recalled my efforts to understand and use the method of St. Ignatius of Loyola to pray with the five sense of the imagination, hearing, seeing, smelling, touch and taste. It is something I feel the need to turn back to do. Putting myself in a scene of the Gospel helps me to see the Gospel in my everyday life.
People talked about how prayer brought peace and was an expression of the Resurrection. This reminded me of how all joy and peace came after times of darkness and sadness. Suffering always precedes the Resurrection. That is okay for me for carrying this out in the everyday world it means that having suffered all this cold, rainy days there is a time of warmth and sun coming soon. The darkness comes before the light of sun.
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