Note to God

Psalm 4

Be daring: tell him that you are crazier about him than Mary Magdalen, than either of his two Teresas, that you love him madly, more than Augustine and Dominic and Francis, more than Ignatius and Xavier.

During prayer time, it is absolutely necessary to resist the urge to board those trains and boats that go by.  Don't identify with these thoughts The just come to us, they are not of us, but on at a display on the backdrop of our interior silence. 

Man need healthy agression - generation and penetrative

The secret to happiness is to have a heart in love. To do things for others 

Instead of letting your mind wonder at troubles and distractions, pray: Mercy, Lord, mercy, lord, until you gain back that peace with the mercy of God. So you abandon yourself in His strong mercy rather than your weak will. 

In order to practice charity, we should take upon ourselves the sort of noises that trouble our minds, stop it right there and not let it run along to others. And we should do so simply, because trouble turns people away from God

Among the five senses at our command, touch is the first to be developed starting even at our mother’s bosom, and it forms the point of origin for all the others. It doesn’t have the richness of some of the other senses, like vision (with all the diversity of images that we can ponder) or hearing (encountering the variety of sounds, melodies). It is the most primordial but the most essential sense in life and in communication. And it possesses an advantage other senses don’t have: reciprocity. We can see without being seen, hear without being heard, but we can’t touch an object without being touched by it at the same time. The contact that comes with touching something is more intimate and immediate than that created by any other sense. It is par excellence, the sense of communion.

Prayer is Faith, Hope, and Love What is needed to have a fruitful prayer life, one that really allows for an encounter with God and transforms our life little by little? St. John of the Cross said there are people who think they pray well but pray poorly, and others who think they pray poorly but pray very well.3 Where does the difference lie? What puts us truly in communion with God in prayer? In the time we devote to prayer, we can do diverse things: recite the Rosary, meditate on a passage of Scripture, ruminate slowly on a psalm, dialogue freely with the Lord, or remain silently in his presence.  But what is decisive in the end is not this or that method, such and such an activity, but the deep disposition of our hearts while we are in prayer. These profound dispositions are nothing other than faith, hope, and love. All the rest is included in these attitudes, expressing them, nourishing them, maintaining them.

Plan of life gives us the silence we need to be in contact with God.  It's like the dike and breakwater placed at the edge of the waters, stopping the turmoil that comes from within and without by putting themselves in the way. Thanks to them, the lake always remains calm, ships do not break their moorings. The hulls do not collide. 

At times, I may feel that my prayers go unheard, yet what is most important is to persevere, to persist, to keep saying to you: “Jesus, remember me!” If you remember me, my evil will no longer be an endpoint but a new beginning. Remember me: welcome me once more into your heart, even when I stray, when I lose my way in the tumult of life. Remember me, Jesus, for to be remembered by you – as the Good Thief shows us – is to enter into paradise. Above all, remind me, Jesus, that my prayer can change the course of history.

"My son, how much do you pray?" No, how much do you really pray? Read the Gospels carefully, Jesus prioritises prayer over charity. He will stop his miracles and healing to retreat to prayer. Why? Because Without God, we are too poor to help the poor.

Learn to "graft" our heart on the heart of God. It is necessary to die to ourselves to join the son of God in silence

I will never know how much God loves me

1. Softness - you are too soft. You want comfort in bed.  2. Hard work - big and small work matter. All work matters.  - with love. E. Heart for people - really