In The Everyday

" I beg you, dearly beloved, by the mercy of God, to give yourselves as a living and holy sacrifice pleasing to God." - Romans 12:1

Since I make it a point to watch my soul and watch my emotions, I've definitely noticed my prayer life suffering over the last few months and it's all been due to the fact that I'm getting married in one week. All the planning and preparing has taken up so much time that unfortunately, it's my relationship with God that gets put in the back seat. But when I don't have Him to balance me, I feel like sin takes an easier hold of me. I brought all these feelings to confession today and the priest gave me wonderful advice. He told me that all of my life experiences serve to hear what God wants to tell me or make known to me at that moment. I don't necessarily have to sit in prayer for an hour each day in order to be a spiritual person, but if I offer my life as a living sacrifice, I can still see God in everything around me. I need to make myself more aware of His movement in my life and learn to see Him in the people I encounter and the things that I do. I may not have the time for peaceful prayer, but that's not the only place to meet God. He really is all around us and His presence becomes so much more real to us when we make the effort to acknowledge Him during all the busy moments of our lives.

Today's Prayer:
Lord Jesus, teach me to see You everywhere. Teach me to see You in the people I talk to, to think of You as I attend a baseball game, to marvel at Your work when I look at a flower, and to thank You when I'm out with good friends. All that is pleasing and good comes from You. Help me to always see that and be grateful. In Your Name we pray, amen.