personal prayer in ignation tradition by j.j. oleary Prayer, then, is a way of lowering our mind and heart to God present within us. In prayer we discover what we already have. We now have everything but we don’t know it and we don’t experience it. All we need is to experience what we already possess. Rollo May says, ”The more self-awareness one has, the more alive one is.” This statement is similar to the one made in 200 A.D. by Irenaeus of Lyons: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” The more self-awareness we have, the more alive we become. Many of us don’t live a life fully alive. I believe this approach to prayer helps us to live a fuller and deeper life. So often people say, “I become distracted whenever I try to pray...” My response to this is to suggest that people make this very distraction the content of their prayer. Not, again, to solve the problem, to figure it out, to dissect, but to hear God’s word in this person, situation, whatever it might be. It is usually the very subject situation, a person that I should be thinking reflecting, praying about in the presence of the Lord. So I think most of the distractions we get are really not distractions. What counts is that we avoid running away from the center of our being. We start by becoming sensitive to what is happening within, being aware of our mood, our spirit because it is out of this spirit, this filter, that I will deal with others, that I will teach, and that I will receive all information.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:55:45 +0000
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