I was moved to watch this scene when three children after a season of conversation ended their conversation with a moment of prayer!
It looked as though it was spontaneous. With no clue to the conversation taking place between them, I presume that the conversation in itself was edifying that they decided to end it by expressing their gratitude to God who was present in their midst.
Children surprise us by their originality and spontaneity!
For children prayer could mean different from what it means to the adults. The posture of the children while in prayer reveals that they were in a reverential attitude and humble in spirit.
Of all the things that prayer would lead us into is this inner soberness. We are used to speaking about ourselves and our achievements as part of our responsibility or need to present our identity. So we become cerebral and confident to the extent that we attribute our achievements to our own abilities.
But it is in prayer, we get tuned to the spirit that St. Paul referred to, 'what is that which we have not received.. and if so why boast ..'
To begin or end or intersperse conversations with prayer is one means of bringing soberness to our attitudes to ourselves and to God!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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