September 18, 2025
I have a rather simple prayer. "God give me enough health to be able to serve, to work, and enough pain not to forget you." A life without some pain, some heartache — not necessarily psychological — would be useless, impossible. We need this and if I can see life without getting worked up about my own silly little aches and pains, I am bound to discover that the balance always seems to be in favor of something positive, something good. Here I've lost two friends through death, but I have gained six new ones — their grandchildren. Why don't I give thanks to God for these instead of brooding over something that I'm supposed to have lost? When I forget all these things, then I see light flowing on smoothly, beautifully, completely regardless of what we do and what we do not do.
Why should we pray at all? In order that we may constantly remember that the only thing in this world that does not change is change. The only unchanging factor in this universe is constant change; it is continuous, the continuity itself is unchanging.