9 August 2022
For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And
since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means
talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present
a problem, I expect a solution; if I formulate a question, I expect an answer;
if I ask for guidance, I expect a response. And when it seems, increasingly,
that I am talking into the dark, it is not so strange that I soon begin to
suspect that my dialogue with God is in fact a monologue. Then I may begin to
ask myself: To whom am I really speaking, God or myself? The crisis of our
prayer life is that our mind may be filled with ideas of God while our heart
remains far from him.
Henri Nouwen
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