So often the “Lord’s Prayer” can be just one more prayer we rattle off, hopefully daily but maybe even not that often. But is Jesus just giving us more words to say? Or is there a deeper something to his teaching us to pray? St. Augustine has a few insights to help.
Month: July 2025
The One Thing Necessary
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” As Annie Dillard insightfully points out, we must be very intentional about how we live day to day, and hour to hour. Especially in a time when our attention is pulled in so many directions and busyness tends to dominate (when we are “anxious and worried about many things”), we should learn to focus on the one thing necessary.
Embracing the Adventure
“The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.”