“I Miss You!”

The Joy of Sitting at the Feet of the Lord

When Fr. Mark first became a priest, he was so in love with Jesus that he would often spend hours before the Lord in prayer every day.

But once he became pastor of a large suburban parish, he began to feel crushed by the responsibility. On his best days, he would spare only a little time to be with the Lord—and even those times were dominated by pleas for financial help for the parish and anxious fretting over the latest personality clashes among his parishioners.

Gradually, an elderly woman who was a longtime member of the parish began to notice how tired Fr. Mark was looking and how labored his homilies had become. She began praying for him, and after a week or so, she approached him. “Fr. Mark,” she said, “God told me to tell you something.” Knowing that she was a prayerful woman, he invited her into his office, sat down, and listened intently. “Maybe God has finally answered my prayer for money,” he…

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