Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Revisiting 5 Smooth Stones

Armed with only his little bag of five smooth stones, young David went into battle against the powerful warrior Goliath. David took one of his stones, hurled it with a sling, and struck Goliath.  The stone hit the giant and Goliath fell on the ground. Thus was seen the truth of David's words declaring that 'it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves. For the battle is the Lord's...'

We may feel spiritually 'young,' we may feel powerless, we may feel anything but able to combat forces coming against ourselves, the world, and those we love. The truth, however, is that we have been given the weapon - the 'stone' - of prayer. Even a simple aspiration, prayed from the heart and in effect hurled against the giants, has much more power than we can imagine.


We each have our little pouch of stones. Simple aspirations, the Mass, prayer with Scripture, the Liturgy of the Hours, songs of praise, the rosary, adoration, chaplets, fasting and sacrifice; yes, each of us has our own little bag of stones...


I pray that God will gather together our prayers, blending their fragrance as incense before Him.  There are so many stones in our pouches, possibly more than we realize. 


I pray we will uncover and practice using our 'stones...'

This is a repost from our achives. It is linked to Reconciled to You and Theology is a Verb for 'It's Worth Revisiting Wednesday.'


   

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10 comments:

  1. Perfect words for today, and everyday. Thank you, Nancy, for inspiration such as this.

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  2. Nancy, although you didn't intend for it to be so :-D that analogy will come in useful for me when I am angry about something - time to hurl some stones....of a different type!

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    1. This makes me remember someone I knew who talked about having an "icky prayer list." When a person made her angry, she would pray extra hard for them.... like "throwing stones of prayer!"

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    2. She's a saint. I do end up praying for those on my icky-list, but not before getting myself into a tight twist! But recently, I read something that gave me pause - that those who hurt us are allowed to so we can pray for them; sometimes they are purposely 'brought' to us for the prayers because no one else might pray for them. That did help me.

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  3. This is powerful writing and truth Nancy. What a different way to look at prayer as stones we hurl! I love your dialogue with Caitlynne Grace as well. A good insight/reminder to pray, pray and pray some more. I will imagine my prayers as individual and unique stones of differing colors and textures. I will smooth them in my hands and hearts; throw them into the vast pool of His heart. Thank you again for a beautiful and inspiring post!! God Bless...

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    1. I love the idea of imagining prayers as stones of differing textures and colors, and smoothing them in our hands and hearts...then throwing them into His heart. Powerfu!

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    2. Hi Nancy, I found this post via Cynthia's site at The Mad-Eyed Monk. I love the idea of prayer stones and I love Cynthia's description of what her future prayers will look and feel like. The poem on her site is precious, too, isn't it? I hope to remember that I can think of my prayers as stones, aw well. You have a great site here, Nancy. Many blessings to you!

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    3. Oh yes, Amy... Cynthia's poem is wonderful!!

      I always enjoy your comments on Cynthia's site, and I'm so glad you stopped by here. Thank you so much, and blessings to you too!

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