In garden of Gethsemane

 Matthew 26:36-46 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” 39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” 40 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked

Life is full of choices, some are hard and others easy. Some fill us with joy and others fill us with that overwhelming sorrow that only time in prayer can resolve. In his human guise our Lord felt this overwhelming need at the end of his life. A desperate prayer, that what was right and meant to be might just be able to be changed. A moment of doubt. We all wobble in our faith and beliefs at times and there is comfort in the knowledge that even our Lord faced his own doubts in a moment of crisis. There is more to this story though, as he approaches his Father in prayer he turns to the disciples and asks them to watch over him. In their human weakness and frailty in that moment of need, they failed. We in our lives today sometimes feel that our human companions fail us, do not support us in our hour of need. Despite this plea and abandonment, Jesus is not alone. His Holy Father is there, to comfort, to carry and to reinforce his strength to do the right thing.

In our hours of darkness, we question so much from tiny petty niggles to great grand life changing decisions. We look for answers and flounder around stumbling through life. Here is where I find time in prayer so vital. As Christians we can say we are doing God's work, but we can not definitively say we are guided by God unless we find our answer in time in communion with God. Spending time in divine presence whether through the Sacraments or in your own individual way, we can use that time to discern which way our lives should turn. We can also find that strength and support to help us carry on.