Why do we pray?

Why do we pray?

“Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”

With this premise, perhaps a prayer is more about expressing – articulating – our intentions. Prayers are means for us to predispose ourselves towards a greater good, and uttering words we mean have power. At the very least, they clarify our insights for us and for those who hear our words.

Maybe it is like teaching. A teacher somehow begins to know more about what he claims to teach when he articulate or rearticulates the lesson, the theory, the insight, the application.

At the risk of expressing my thoughts through an inappropriate superlative, I think that in a way, the teaching vocation can parallel Jesus as the Word Incarnate. As Jesus teaches us how to pray, He demonstrates that He is one with God through prayer; hence, the Word Incarnate.

On the other hand, a teacher who means what he teaches becomes one with the insight. And maybe, just maybe, at that moment, a teacher can personify being an Insight Incarnate.

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Matthew 6:7-15. The Lord’s Prayer

[DAILY GOSPEL INSIGHTS AND REFLECTION FOR MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION 167: JUNE 16, 2022]