Season 5 Episode 26
Prayer’s purpose is to make us feel loved.
“You should pray and meditate every day, so you know that you are loved, so you feel the presence of God’s love in your life.” - Mother Teresa
The primary purpose of prayer and meditation is to connect us to that which is greater than ourselves. Some of us call this source or transcendence, some of us call this father, some mother, some wind, or spirit.
On the eve of his execution, Jesus was extremely troubled. The Gospel of Luke describes him as sweating literal blood indicating the high level of stress he was dealing with.
He took some of his disciples with him and went to a quiet place to pray. In his prayer, he confessed how hard a time he was having even though he was clear about his purpose.
In that moment vulnerable moment he asked God, to make it all mean something, to bring glory to his name through the sacrifice he was about to make.
Jesus felt his father’s love in the response he heard. “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” - In other words Jesus felt fully loved and affirmed and knew his life had meaning.
I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope Peace be with you.
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