September 13, 2013 – Catechism 2637 – 2649

Have you ever thought of every action you take throughout your day as a prayer? More specifically, have you ever thought of every act you do as a prayer of Thanksgiving to God. The paragraphs seem to say that you can do this and really should try to make everything you do a prayer of Thanksgiving. We should because we can never show enough Thanksgiving for all that God has done for us. To be honest, I have heard this before, but I don’t know if I have been good at putting it into practice. How do you make your drive to work a prayer of Thanksgiving? Doing the dishes, playing with the boys, reading a report; all can be but I have just not been able to practice it in any way that I think it is benefiting me.

Praise is our prayer to God because He is God and no other reason. This makes it a unique type of prayer. We can say that we are praising others for things they are doing, and even praise saints for the lives they lived, but there is a special Praise that we keep for God because He is God and there is only one. Maybe the word is thrown around too much and loses its punch when we talk of praising God because we use it for things that are not God. So, try to say a prayer of praise to God solely because He is God and see how that might differ from what you might have thought that type of prayer was before.