It’s always touched my heart to read the Bible verse of Christ Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. Faced with crucifixion and spiritual demands that required he prove life to be deathless, he turns to God and communes with Him: “Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt” (Mark 14:36). True, it seems here that Jesus prayed to avoid the betrayal of Judas and resulting crucifixion altogether. Yet, his tender addressing of God as Abba, or “my loving Father,” shows his full trust in God, his close relationship to Him, and his willingness to fulfill his mission.
Do we commune with God, our dear Father, as Christ Jesus did? Do we understand God to be the sole creator, our Father-Mother, even closer to us than we may feel to a human parent who has been loving, kind, and guiding? Communing with God in this tender manner shows us that we can, and should, speak to God in a way that we would speak to another whom we greatly love—and whom we know greatly loves us.
Our prayers are answered in healing
