The more we pray, living a prayerful life, the more we desire to pray...and the more we desire to spend time with God. In time, prayer becomes one of the greatest gifts to us, the joy that facilitates us being with God and God alone who becomes our greatest desire.
Desire is often talked about as something that we should overcome. Still, being is desiring: our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls are full of desires. Some are unruly, turbulent, and very distracting; some make us think deep thoughts and see great visions; some teach us how to love and some keep us searching for God.
Our desire for God is the desire that should guide all other desires. Otherwise our bodies, minds, hearts and souls become one another's enemies and our inner lives become chaotic, leading us to despair and self-destruction.
Spiritual disciplines are not ways to eradicate all our desires but ways to order them so that they can serve one another and together serve God.
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Blessings,
Mitch
