Two complementary comments from two of my regular reads. First, from Richard Rohr:
Contemplative prayer is like striking a tuning fork. All you can really do in the spiritual life is resonate to the true pitch, to receive the always-present message. ... Prayer is connecting with God/Ultimate Reality. It is not an attempt to change God’s mind about us or about events. Such arrogance is what unbelievers make fun of—and often rightly so. Prayer is primarily about changing our own mind so that things like infinity, mystery, and forgiveness can resound within us.Then from Craig Bullock of the Assisi Institute:
To be born a human is a great gift because we have been fashioned in God's very own image. What does this mean? We are meant to hear the highest harmonies, to behold the most luminous lights, to taste the sweetest of delights, to inhale heaven's most intoxicating fragrances, and to touch the Divine in all persons. What then has gone wrong? Our soul's senses are enslaved by lesser gods, dulled by the dross of ignorance, and governed by the whims of desire. Restoration to our original innocence, to our full potential in God, cannot occur without our own effort – and the effort required is of the will and the heart. We must choose to make an interior journey, to pull ourselves into our own center.
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