“Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity. Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue… a conversation with God.”
-Henri Nouwen
If we lived like this... how would it change every part of who we are? To make every thought intentional. To be open to listen to God, aware of his presence. We need to go to God with outstretched hands, hands that are open, not clenched tightly on our own ways but open so that we may be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Unceasing, never ending, intentional, and active.
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life”-Jonathan Edwards
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