"Lord, teach us to pray...." How Does God Speak to You?

Richard Rohr is a Franciscan, a popular retreat master, speaker and writer. He is cofounder and animator of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The piece below came from his book entitled Radical Grace: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr.

Prayer Advice

"In order to discover the right rhythm of prayer for us, the prayer that works with our temperament, we must listen to the ways that God speaks to us. How do you best slow down and enter into the dialogue of revelation and response? It is different for each of us.

"You may need a holy spot, perhaps a place where God has spoken to you before. Maybe it's out in nature, maybe it's a certain chair or before the Blessed Sacrament. Maybe it's in the last pew in church. It's that place where you can return to and sort of settle back and seek God's face. That's the simplest form of prayer: Each day simply seek, for a moment, if possible, the face of God. Know that you have looked at God eyeball to eyeball, and you have let God look at you.

"If you are more the thinking type, ideas will lead you into that revelation-and-faith dialogue. Use a book, if that is your style. But don't think that reading the book itself is the dialogue. You have got to end by talking to God from your heart, person-to-person, with ordinary words like you would talk to everybody else. Speak out of what you are really feeling, not what you think you are suppose to be feeling. If you are feeling depression, failure, competition, that's what you bring to God. Everything is data. There are no such things as distractions."

Those are good words to ponder for the middle day of the week

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