Prayer Exercise

Solitude is a place of conversion. There we are converted from people who want to show each other what we have and what we can do into people who raise our open and empty hands to God in the recognition that all we are is a free gift from God.

"How do we pray best? We tend to break with what we're doing and close our eyes, or stop all our talk and fall silent a moment. But God is not only in silence but right in the noise and the voices and the wind and the excitement. God is not only in the darkness of closed eyes but in the color and confusion and discoveries and excitement of wide open eyes. In a word, we are always in God's presence."

From Centering Prayers by William Cleary, Introduction p3

Readings

Winter 2001 Newsletter - Reflections on Prayer

Fall 2000 - Reflections on Solitude