In the last articles, I talked about my journey with prayer and affirmations. If you missed reading them, here are the links:
Prayer, or communing with God/Spirit, is a big part of my life from the time I was very young Of course, as a good Catholic, I prayed the Rosary — a 
series of prayers, recited from memory, with little meaning or feeling. I wanted to be closer to God/Spirit, but the Catholic prayers were not touching my soul or bringing me to the place I wanted to be.
I remember asking my mother about Catholic prayers when I was a young teenager:
“Mom, I feel nothing when I recite the Rosary. What is the sense of all of it if I feel nothing?” I asked her.
Her response as a good Catholic mother: “Just consider it your penance for the sins you have committed.”
Needless to say, her response made no sense and made me realize if I wanted to find answers, I would need to search for them myself. After hearing the ‘Jesus message’ made so popular among young people in the 1970s, I became a ‘born-again’ Christian and left the Catholic Church.
As a fundamental Christian, I found a whole new way of looking at prayer. I often saw and felt the emotions of prayer and realized that emotions played a big part in how prayers worked. If I could feel it, the prayers would change my situation or life. And in some cases, it impacted me in a wonderful way!
I ended up finding a good Christian man and got married. Life was good … or so I thought at first!
More in Part Four
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