In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us to “pray always”. How can anyone pray “always”? We have to sleep or we will become “weary”. We have to work. We have to eat. How can we “pray always”? The fact that what Jesus says might seem impossible should tell us that He is trying to get us to think differently about what it means to pray, let alone “pray always.” Like today’s parable,
God wants us to bring our problems and sufferings to him in prayer. However, the thing to think about is what do we want from God in our prayer? Do we want to change God to get him to do what we want or are we willing to allow God to change our lives through prayer? For instance, maybe God wants to help us redirect our life around our problems. Look through His eyes and see another path in life. God doesn’t change us all at once, or at least we generally don’t let him. We need to be persistent in prayer to keep coming back to God. Let us be truly persistent in our prayer, that is, pray always, whether it is convenient or inconvenient. And in prayer God will let us know He is with us always.