Space

"We need space to re-read the day, as it were. We need time to listen to the inner voice of hope calling us back to the essentials of love, essentials that we have forgotten because of busyness and selfishness. To pray, then is more about listening than about talking. To pray is to be centred in love, it is to let what is deepest within us come to the surface. For me, it is all that and more. Prayer is also a meeting with the One who loves me, who reveals to me my secret value, who empowers to give life, who loves us all, and who calls us to a greater love and compassion. Prayer is resting in the quiet, gentle presence of God."- Jean Vanier, from Becoming Human, pg 32.