Getting Ready to Pray                     

The English word, “silly” has a blessed history. It actually derives from the German word for “Blessed” or “holy.”

There are other words in our language which at one time described something interior as a state of being, and yet later, came to describe an outward state of behaving.

Silly, for us now, usually refers to something childish, even somehow cute. It can mean trivial and or stupid as well.

In our cultures, religion, believing, and trusting in faith are very silly and those who live according to religious traditions can be called silly. Ah, how true that is if we believe that we are blessed.

Some Thoughts 

As we live the Eucharist throughout our days, we are encouraged to appear to be doing unusual, complexifying, eye-catching things, that to some might bring the reaction of negative shaking of heads.

We can still pray these days with how our faith and the actions flowing from our beliefs might seem silly to some, things like going to mass, visiting the prisoner, clothing the naked.

We can pray with how un-conformed our lives are or are not. How blessed do we think we are?