Ep. 84: Make Your Life A Prayer

Make your life a prayer. Not a quest for more money, awards, popularity, achievements, praise or fame.

A Jesuit priest used to offer this simple statement to everyone he counseled: “God is the answer. Now what was your question?” The solution to every problem is more God. More love. More joy. More peace. Not more booze, gambling, shopping, sex, winning, achievements.

A simple sign hangs over the monastery gates where Thomas Merton wrote at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky. Just two words that says it all: God Alone.

Once you have God, you have everything.