The Prayer We Possess Prayer is sacramental. It is there to begin with. We do not work our way toward it from a distance, or master it as an achievement, like Spanish or cooking. Our task is not to manufacture it but to surrender to the prayer we already possess, to get out of its way. . . The most important part of prayer technique is to keep at it, to give it a daily place in our lives. Even a quarter hour a day is better than a prayer binge now and then. If we are faithful to a daily amount of prayer, we will want to pray at other times during the day, in our various needs and activities. But we must withdraw some time each day from those needs and activities, from the making of our world. Even if the prayer time seems to be no more than a refined nuisance, it is giving life to the rest of our day. We should give away the time, lay it simply before God without demanding that we see its results. Rabbi Heschel speaks of the Sabbath as a window on eternity. That is what prayer is. We let God in, we let ourselves be the prayer we already are. Sr. Miriam Pollard, The Laughter of God From, Give Us This Day.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:18:26 +0000
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