"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."  - Abraham Lincoln

I especially remember my grandmother's prayers. 

I was fascinated with her Slovak books, worn beads, and the special intention cards she used every day. I was most curious by how she prayed for our family backward and forward in time.  

Besides praying for the aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, siblings and grandparents I knew, she prayed for relatives in the "Old Country" I would never meet. She prayed for people who had died and for children not yet born.

Now and then, I'll feel sweetly guided or helped in some way. And I wonder if it might be a long-ago prayer just reaching me.

And then I pray as she did, backward and forward in time,  and outward in all directions, for her and all my long-gone loved ones. 

Have you ever prayed this way?

"We all have our time machines," said Jeremy Irons. "Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams." 

And some time travel on the wings of prayers. 

Wishing you love and joy,
Charlene

THE ELEVENTH GIFT IS LOVE. It will grow each time you give it away. - from The Twelve Gifts of Birth