I sit here listening to this beautiful song. It always brings me back to Emmaus retreats.
Well, it’s been one of those days
When the mountain I’m facing
Seems too high to climb
And I try to have faith
But sometimes the waiting
Drives me out of my mind
So brother to brother I come to you
With this one request
Is there room for another weary soldier
Who needs a place to rest? Pray me home, pray me home
Oh, my heart is so heavy
And I just can’t go on
Pray me home, pray me home
I need you to help me
Don’t think I can make it alone
Pray me home
I am trying to create a new function on The Road of Faith that will allow those who are walking this journey with me to submit prayer needs and intentions. I have everything created but am struggling with receiving the emails. Hopefully soon this will come online.
Until then, know that every night, my wife and I pray for each and every person on The Road of Faith. We lift up your needs and intentions to our Lord. We are praying you along the next steps in your life, through mountains that seem to high and valleys that are dark and scary. We are praying the Divine Will of God rest within your soul that no matter consolation, desolation, joy or pain, you rest in the peace and knowledge that “all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
The one power we as Christians have over those of the world is the super natural virtue of hope.
Hope can be described as an unshakable trust and assurance that the promises of God will be fulfilled. This trust is based on what He has done for us in His Son Jesus, through His Death and Resurrection. Like faith, it is not a human attitude or opinion, but it is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes the true nature and meaning of the virtue. It states: Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. (CCC 1817)
Our hope is in Jesus and comes directly from our Heavenly Father through the Holy Spirit. Our individual and combined prayers are key to the growth of this virtue.
Practice this virtue of hope and know that The Road of Faith is praying you home!
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