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Prayer
is largely just being silent: holding it instead of even talking it
through; offering it instead of fixing it by words and ideas; loving it
as it is instead of understanding it fully.
That
may be impractical, but the way of faith is not the way of
efficiency. Much is a matter of listening and waiting, and enjoying
the expansiveness that comes from such willingness to hold. It is
like carrying and growing a baby: all women do is wait and trust, and
hopefully eat good food, and the baby is born.
Fr Richard Rohr
August 2010 |