Introduction to Lauds - Week 1, Wednesday.

(Introduction based on the hymn with Psalm 35(36).
Usually in the beginning of the movies, we will always see that the life of the action hero or super hero would go smoothly and successful. Then there would come a situation where they would be in great difficulty, but after all that, at the end, they would somehow get all the strength and be victorious in whatever they were trying to accomplish.

In real life too, we can see this happening. Everything will go on smoothly in the beginning then out of a sudden there will be an overturn where we would face difficult situations or reach a dead end. Then what are we to do? Where are we to get strength like the super heroes?
The 2nd verse of the hymn gives us a clue that we might have forgotten or even taken for granted. It sings “Your peaceful presence, giving strength, is everywhere, and fallen men may rise again on wings of prayer.” True, this is what we are to do when we are in those situations, and I know many can testify to experiences of rising again through prayer.

Even in times when we have fallen in sin, for psalm 35 (36) says that when we are in a sinful situation we do not experience God, we can’t feel him, we have no fear of God. So we the fallen should all the more pray. For only in God can we find refuge in the shelter of his wings and our sins forgiven.

We can rise again on wings of prayer!