Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast.

Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content.

And here is one of those weeks.

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Hey there, Sprouts.

Today is Tuesday, August 28, 2018. It is also the feast day of St. August, Augustine. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about prayer. Yesterday, we

talked about what prayer actually is. and the easiest way to describe prayer is

simply being in the presence of God. But I think it's important today on the feast of St. Augustine

that we talk about why we need to pray. Why do we even need to do this? Why is it so important?

Well, St. Augustine, this great sinner turned great saint, has a simple sentence that helps

us understand why we need to pray every single day.

St. Augustine said,

We are restless until we rest in you, oh God.

We are restless until we rest in you, oh God.

Do you know what it feels like to be restless?

Have you ever been lying in bed tired, but you just can't sleep?

You just can't keep your legs still.

It's exhausting and it's miserable.

St. Augustine tells us that we are restless until we rest in God because we are God's creation. God created us to be just like him.

He created us to act like him. And you know how God acts? God's primary way of acting is through love.

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