Megan's prayer: Falling Up's "Escalates"

Christmas day. Time with family. Time with friends. Time spent playing games, eating, opening presents, just having a great time. But despite all the joy that I found with family this year, my favorite moment today was in the car by myself, listening to “Escalates,” and watching a beautiful sunset.

These past few days, this past week, have been incredible and extremely busy. I have loved all of the family time, but for the first time today I was able to just be by myself for awhile, just reflecting on how blessed I am in my life. It wasn’t until then that I could truly see just how perfect life is.

This is everything that I wanted.

Erinnicole's Prayer: Falling Up's "Escalates"

This is everything that I wanted

I know that i kind of took this out of the context of the song, but this jumped out at me right away. I am quite the optimist and i love finding the silver lining. So it's safe to say that the majority of the time, i am happy. But the only time i've ever in my life expirienced joy was anytime i spend time with the Lord. I've given that so much consideration, because i have been very happy a lot of my life but the feeling during Adoration and retreats and other things of the like, i have only been able to describe as purely joyful. it is the most amazing emotion to feel. Especially today, as Christ's birthday, i am spending the day with my family, started with Mass and a quick birthday song to Jesus :) ...this is everything i want in life; pure joy in the lord! Merry Christmas!

Marie's Prayer: Falling Up's "Escalates"

I can’t find it but maybe I’ll cope

Sometimes I just want to cope with the way I am and everything. I realize that you'll get nowhere if you just cope. You have to make things right for you. You need God and you can't just cope without Him. So I will look harder for Him everywhere.

Chris' Prayer: Falling Up's "Escalates"

Can you see what I felt when I told you?

I was asked this question recently. My girlfriend was sharing something that she wasn't particularly happy about, but I wasn't understanding what she was saying at all. I just couldn't see her point of view. I could tell from the sound of her voice that it was very, very frustrating for her, and it was frustrating for me, too. She was opening up to me, trying to draw closer to me, and there was this disconnect that was preventing that from occurring.

This feeling is not isolated to human relationships either. I feel that the question above, and a similar one– Can you see what I felt when I did that?– is one that we want to ask God a lot. Sometimes we sin despite trying to do what is right. Often times, our sins come out of the need to be loved, accepted, cherished. We may sleep with our significant other, or that guy/girl at the party, thinking that in doing so, they will love us. We might put another person down in order to be accepted by a larger group. We might lie about something that happened, so that we might be cherished by another person. Despite our best efforts to be Christian, to receive God's Love, we find ourselves sinning. We turn to our God asking, "Can you see what I felt when I did that?" hoping that He will understand.

Hopefully, that disconnect I spoke of earlier will not occur, and instead, by asking this question, we will feel heard, understood, accepted, loved, and cherished by our God.



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