Philippians 2:5-11 / Luke 14:15-24
One of the main distractions in our prayer time is that our minds are filled with thoughts about almost anything and everything.
But it is not just about anything and everything; it is anything and everything about ourselves.
Our thoughts will just surface when we want to settle down for prayer and we will start thinking of the things we have not yet done and the things that we want to do but have not found the time for.
And on top of that there are also the worries and the anxieties of life that come flooding in and often we feel that prayer time is a distressful time instead of a peaceful time.
We get discouraged because we feel we are not going anywhere in prayer and we may eventually give up on prayer.
Yet the gospel parable tells us that God is inviting us to sit down at the banquet with Him and feast on the riches of His love.
Just as the 1st reading said of Jesus in that He did not cling to His equality with God but emptied Himself to assume the condition of a slave, we too need to empty our hearts in prayer and to know that we can't solve all the problems of our lives just by thinking about them.
We have to put it into the God's hands in prayer and then to let God's love and peace fill our hearts.
When our hearts are filled with God's love and peace at prayer, then we will know what to do.