Meditation
Case studies in prayer: 5
When I pray I sit in a comfortable posture, looking down. I gaze at my navel.
When I pray I sit in a comfortable posture, looking down. I gaze at my navel.
I pray the rosary. I say ten Hail Marys and then an Our Father. Then I repeat.
I used to really enjoy meditation, but lately I can’t pray. I get up early to pray, but there is nothing there. The door is shut.
When I pray, I usually read a good book or the Bible, slowly. I think about how it applies to me.
Imagine you are a spiritual director. You meet with a directee, who describes his prayer. What advice do you give?
The robots are coming. They may make us rich beyond imagining, or they may wipe us out entirely—they don’t care. But one thing is certain—they will change us completely!
Describe your life of prayer. When you sit down to pray, what do you say or think or do?
You are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
What could it be that, when seen, led Saul to give up everything that had driven him to that point in his life, to completely change from a life of comfort and respect to a life of imprisonment and beatings and lashes and shipwrecks, to become Paul?