A 90-year-old man used to come into the church every day and
sit before the tabernacle for three hours. One day, as he was leaving, the
Pastor asked him what prayers he said when he was sitting there. “Oh, I don’t
use words,” he replied. “I sit there with him, and he is there with me, and
that’s enough.”
Think of a couple who have reached a point in their
relationship where they are able to simply be with one another without
speaking, who are fulfilled just by being together. Can you pray like that?
Evagrius of Pontus (4th century) said this about
prayer: “When your intellect, in an ardent love for God, sets itself gradually
to transcend, so to speak, created things and rejects all thinking . . . at the
same time filling itself with gratitude and joy, then you may consider yourself
approaching the borders of prayer.”
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