Katie's prayer: Mark Schultz's "You Are a Child of Mine"

They’re binding me with lies,

Haunting me at night,

And saying there’s nothing to believe.

Part of my new year’s resolution was to read more books. I have gone back and forth with what kind of book I’m reading - something to change my life/faith life and something just for fun. Currently, I am reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. I was expecting it to be one of the ‘just for fun’ books. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, it has transformed into so much more than that. This book shows temptation from the devil’s point of view, how it works, etc.

I have learned so much about the devil and about God already, and I’m only 6 chapters in. I think the one thing that has stuck out to me so far (and was reaffirmed at Adoration tonight) is this: when you have times of spiritual dryness and still follow the rules, still listen, still pray, God loves that more than when you listen and pray at times of spiritual fullness. The devil tries to tell us that in those times of spiritual dryness that God isn’t near, that God doesn’t care about us, we should just stop believing and all sorts of lies. But the truth is, that God is still there, and it doesn’t matter what we feel, it doesn’t matter, cause God’s there! All the time! And when we resist those temptations to neglect, shorten, delay our prayer time, God rejoices.