The Need For Prayer

1. I found the song:

The Prayer
Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli

I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go
And help us to be wise, in times when we dont know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe

La luce che tu dai, I pray we'll find your light
Nel cuore restera, and hold it in our hearts
A ricordarci che, when stars go out each night
Leterna stella sei, ooooo

Nella mia preghiera, let this be our prayer
Quanta fede ce, when shadows fill our day
Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so well be safe

Sogniamo un mondo senza piu violenza
Un mondo di giustizia e di speranza
Ognuno dia una mano al suo vicino
Simbolo di pace, di fraternita

La forza che ci dai, We ask that life be kind
E desiderio te, And watch us from above.
Ognuno trovi amor, We hope each soul will find
Intorno e dentro se, Another soul to love.
Let this be our prayer, Let this be our prayer
Just like every child, Just like every child

Needs to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe
E la fede che, hai acceso in noi
Sento che ci salverai

If you haven't heard this song, you are SO, SO, SO deprived. Period.

~o0O0o~

2. These days, I find myself being in HELP's Resource Centre a.k.a. library more often. Today, as I was searching for research materials, I found a few inspiring quotes:

You always eat food. But do you ever eat 'food' as such? You do not. You eat steak, you eat chicken, you eat strawberries. You always eat some specific type of food and not 'food' in general. Food is a concept. A hamburger is the idea.

A very good example would be how we choose a place to eat. A classic conversation would be something like this:

Person A: Hey, what do all of you want to eat, ar?
Person B: Anything la.
Person C: How about we eat pizza today?
Person A & B: Okay.

So, what are they eating? To state that they're eating food is already considered a not so intellectual answer. But to answer 'pizza' would then prove the point that we eat more than just 'food' these days. We eat ideas. Food is now not a need, it is a commodity.

Proof is sometimes no more than a lack of imagination in thinking of an alternative.

This quote, I shall leave it to you to interpret it subjectively.

Edward De Bono, How to Have A Beautiful Mind (2004)

~o0O0o~

3. I have so many things to pray for these days. Okay, maybe not so many, just about countable with my bare hands. I encounter several problems when I pray:

i. I sleep.
ii. I start thinking about other stuff.
iii. I don't know whether my prayers were answered.
iv. I'm still not used to it.
v. I kinda get mixed up with the order of things.

ARGH. And it happens that I am going to need a lot of prayer for the next few weeks. No, it isn't about my assignments. It's about transformation and change.

Prayer is a church's lungs.

I must be running out of breath then... Drowning.