“Prayer uplifts the world… we will run, indeed, all of us,
for souls on fire with love cannot remain inactive…. Prayer enkindles the fire
of love. Though I have only these
brothers and sisters, my days are not long enough to detail all their needs,
and I would probably forget something really important… Jesus taught me this simple
method: it is quite enough to say
simply: Draw me… by the very fact of being drawn to you herself, she draws all
the souls she loves after her.” St. Therese
Grace and I are struck today by the need to be persistent in our prayer. We have started to become attached to the new zamni-- friends-- we have made here, and we pledge to keep up our daily prayers for this little school and all who grace its' walls. Our 25th year on earth, we dedicate a prayer a day for all those we meet this week.
Yet, it doesn't seem enough. The barriers are many, the politics confusing, the history hard to hear, the work seemingly too much. There is still only one Rose window in the Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.
So, we learn from Therese that it is enough. It is enough simply to be drawn close to to fire of love ourselves. From there, we cannot help but bring everyone else along with us. Sak Pase? (What's up?) N'ap boule! (literally-- We're burning!). We teach the kids, This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine! All around Petit-Goave, we're gonna let it shine!
The songs of prayer we hear once again at the shelter for the poor today-- We are convinced they are what makes the world go around. Their raw, powerful praises remind us we are in the Lenten journey of renewal--- God can and does make all things new.
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