Pre-Advent Sunday

​Joyce Rupp, Prayer (Orbis Books, 2007), 54.
Image: Ducminh Nguyen, unsplash.com/@demken

'When life gets full, the first thing to fly off the daily schedule is usually the time set aside for prayer. (Foregoing prayer is much easier to do when seemingly little fruit seems to be coming from it.)
 
Faithfulness is about finding a place of peace within us that trusts in God’s nearness no matter whether we feel this nearness or not. We go on praying whether the tide is in or out. We “let go and let God,” who knows the intention of our heart. And that is enough.
 
When we pray, we cross a threshold into mystery. We enter openly, with an assurance that our life will continually take on the hue of the Holy One. In order to do this, we need quiet times, spaces in our day or evening when silence and solitude are given prominence in our schedule. Our culture does not promote this silence. On the contrary. We are constantly pulled this way and that by our overly active society. The electronic ages seduces us with constant noise and frenetic, compulsive action.'

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