Got It! for once

I know its late, but better late than never!
Praying is such a human activity - the idea of stopping from the business of living the life that is given to us, and reflecting on the wonder of that gift, and what it means to the world that this soul - ME - is alive.
Well, maybe I should qualify, and say: 'what it potentially means to the world...'
But then, who knows what potential?
I remember reading one time - in a book by a Jesuit John Powell, that 'everyone, at every minute, is doing the best they can - even the most awful criminal'.
His theory was that since we are created for LOVE, for good, we strive after that as a matter of course. Even the bad that we do, is for a 'good' that we perceive at the time, even if our judgement is clouded.
It's an extraordinary thought - that if we could do better, we would - the good keep pulling us towards itself.
It's also an extraordinary thought to think that we can be so stupid as to be codded by the enemy into going after the lesser good, when the greater good could make us so much happier.
LOVE teach to to have the courage to let go the lesser good, and to trust You to deliver to us the greater good, who is LOVE Yourself. Amen