Few thoughts on prayer-from an unusual view point

Thoughts on prayer and on the Holy Spirit.

Have you noticed? We often come across the words such as:  "His will be done" or  "I am just an instrument in the hands of the Lord" or  "Holy Spirit will find a way , so pray about it".

So here are few thoughts related to those statements. We are designed to comply with God's will but often times we rebel, hence we encounter a lot of bumps in the road of our life time, and we worry. Again and again we  hear the words:  "Pray, pray about it", yet we don't pray as  much as we are enclosed in the shell of our Pride, a major deadly sin.

Whether we like it or not, the Holy Spirit will act, it  is in our nature to interact with Him, we are made for that interaction and final union. It depends how we will engage our will ,  it really depends on us, whether we like it or not, how to respond to the Holy Spirit who is always there, unchangeable and present. So think about it,  think of yourself or your family as a house by the shore of a river  or a lake or an ocean. The "Guest" ( The Holy Spirit) is coming  to your dwelling by a boat.  If we put out the welcoming mat  and clean the ramp for the Guest to enter in our home ( read: The  Holy Spirit entering our hearts), then  marvelous Graces (some times that Grace is in a form of trial too- so don't be discouraged),  will come  along with Him.  In that case the Holy Spirit will enter where ever He wishes, the entrance and interaction will be smooth and pleasant.  Now, if we remove the  "welcome" mat, if we close the door and remove the ramp, then the Holy Spirit will walk on water and will still  enter anyway, but of course there will be great waves  and sand all over, all caused by the the lack of the welcoming ramp and the mat. Does it make sense?
 Here is the question:  Are you putting out the welcome mat and cleaning up the ramp for the Guest, or are you removing it all and wait for the wave to really splash you and perhaps the sand to hurt you? So that is the meaning of prayer, it is the welcoming mat and the walking ramp for the Holy Spirit to visit you and  that you receive him willfully. I hope this explain what prayer is about from this angle.

M.M.