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Mike:
I read with interest your words about you problem as it relates to
prayer. Needless to say, in looking back, there have been times when I
often felt that way about prayer. Yet, even if I slacked off, I kept
praying. Sometimes it was just the Lord's prayer in Matthew that I
prayed.
Since I enjoy reading and re-reading Merton, I thought I would share the
following from NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, page 1-45-46.
"Again, in prayer we are distracted by our practical difficulties, the
problems of our state of life, the duties we have to face. It is not
possible to avoid such distractions all the time, but if we know what
prayer means, and know Who God is, we will be able to turn these
thoughts themselves into motives of prayer. But we will not be
satisfied with such prayer as this. It is good, indeed, to turn
distractions into material for petition, but it is better not to be
distracted, or at least not to be drawn away from God by our
distractions. . . .
However, if we are humble men, we will be grateful for ever so little
light in our prayer, and will not complain too much, for it is a great
thing to receive a little light from so great a God."
It is that "little light" that keeps many us praying after many years of
prayer!!!!
Blessings.....
Wayne
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