October 8, 2013

I saw the movie "Gravity" yesterday and there was a scene that spoke to me. Sandra Bullock, who plays an astronaut who is the only one left in the space station after a terrible accident, is desperate and crying out. In her deepest desperation she says "I don't know how to pray no one ever taught me." What a tragedy not to know how to pray. What a tragedy to have never been taught to pray. What a privilege to know how to pray. What great gift it is to teach others how to pray. How sad it is when those of us who do know how to pray neglect the opportunity to do so.