Sainthood Challenge Day 5: Adoration

Today our prayer focuses on Adoration.

You know what Adoration is, even if you have never thought about it in prayer. Adoration is what happened with Romeo and Juliet. Adoration is that sense of not being able to stop loving the adored.

To simply praise, pure and perfect, with nothing in the way of your soul's reach for God.

This is such a simple concept that becomes very complicated in the application.

To simply sit or kneel before God and to acknowledge that there is a greater power than yourself is adoration. To pray to God and simply let the phrases that acknowledge His greatness is adoration. To be before the Almighty in silence and to allow your soul to reach up to God, to long for that Divine is adoration.

To allow your heart to be still so that you can simply love God is adoration. To just take a moment to dwell upon the greatness of God and what He has done for you is adoration.

Today, focus on adoring God. Acknowledging God. Putting God in His right place, above all creation. Giving Him the credit that He deserves in your life.

To adore God is to submit yourself to Him. That is to take the one gift that God will never take from you, your free will, and return it to God, letting Him know that you submit to what He created you for.

How do you adore God?

In worship?

In Eucharistic Adoration?

In meditation?

How can adoring God help you today?