"We should bear in mind and realize that when we call God our Father we ought also to act like sons. If we are pleased to call him Father, let him in turn be pleased to call us sons. We should life like the temples of God we are, so that it can be seen that God lives in us."St. Cyprian

Once we are baptized and adopted by by God as his sons ad daughters, we remain such eternally. We ,may deny and reject him but he will never deny us.  The Prodigal Son while he left his father and rejected his relationship with the father, the father  still considered him his son. The burden of proof of relationship rests not on the Father but on us his sons and daughters. The father of the Prodigal Son waited for him. It was up to the son to return and call him father again. If we call God our Father, then we should seek to live as sons and daughters in relationship with Him.

 "Attribute to God every good that you have received, if you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft." St. Anthony of Padua

Do we give thanks to God for all the good that we have received from his hands?  Do we use his gifts for his glory and honor, knowing that we will have to give an account of our stewardship? If so, we are  in right relationship with God. If we are not in this area of our life, then we may be like a thieve who takes from another what is not ours. Examine your conscious to determine the real state of your life with God.

 "Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love." St Margaret Mary Alacoque

Such great love for so unworthy a person as I am! The Lord chose out of infinite love to share our human life, while remaining God. Out of that same infinite love Jesus chose to reconcile us to God by becoming the sacrifice pleasing to God: embracing the will of God by embracing death by crucifixion. From his pierced Sacred Heart comes the blood and water that brings us salvation. How can I respond to this tremendous love? As St. Theresa of Avila once said that the only response to love is love, a love that seeks to avoid sin, which is non love.

 "There is nothing impossible to God." St Rita

All things are possible for God. All that can be done is possible to God. But just because it can be done, God may not will it to be done. Jesus addressed this. A man can to Jesus asking "if you can" asking for the healing of his son. Another person came and said, "if you will." Can Jesus heal? Yes. Will he heal the way we desire him to? Not necessary. It is not for us to determine. We are not God. Our petitions should be made with faith expectancy that the will of God may be manifested, not our will. Recall the words of Jesus in the Garden, "Father, take away this cup, yet not my will but yours be done." What God willed was, not the death of his Son, but the salvation of the world though his obedience. 

 "You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer, unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs." St. Norbert

The focus of prayer is not ourselves nor the things of this world. We go to prayer to be in the presence of the greatest of all Lovers, God himself, to praise and thank him. He tells us: "Be still and know that I am God," Still your mind and your heart and rest in the quiet with the Bbeginning and End of everything. This is not easy to do, if our focus is ourselves and the various things in our life. There will be a time for prayer of petition, But first focus on the goodness and blessings of God. Worship and praise him. Love and thank him. Then just quietly wait upon him, if he desires to share something with you to draw you closer to him. This time of being other focused is the heart of prayer. It takes practice to reach this point. Be patient and faihful.

 "O Lord and King, grant me tp see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for you are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen." St. Ephrem

It is easy for us to see and condem the other, the faults of others, while passing over our own faults. There is no spirityual growth in that. It doesn't make us holier, though it implies we are holier than the other. Recall the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector praying in the Temple. While exalting himself the Pharisee disdained and condemn the Tax Collector. On the other hand, the Tax Collector asked for forgiveness of his own sins. If we spent our time uprooting our own sins, we will have no time to judge another. That's God's role not ours.

 "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle" St. Francis of Assisi

That is why Jesus called us, his followers, to be the light of the world.  When we were baptized a lighted candle was given us to be kept burning until we reach our destiny. We by our life light the way for ourselves and others through the darkness of the world. If we remain in union with Jesus nothing, even the attacks of the evil of darkness, will be able to extinguish our light. As St. John reminds us, "He who is within us is greater than he who is outside." Walk confidently with your light held high.