WHEN WE STRUGGLE TO PRAY

 An insightful article I came across …”Silence and the love of Christ”  by Mother Theresa of Calcutta, India.

“It is very hard to pray if one does not know how. We must help ourselves to learn. The most important thing is silence. Souls of prayer; are souls of deep silence. We cannot place ourselves directly in God’s presence without imposing on ourselves interior and exterior silence. That is why we must accustom ourselves to stillness of the soul, of the eyes, of the tongues.

God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, but we cannot find Him in noise, in excitement. In Psalm 46:10 we read   “Be still and know that I am God”

See how nature, the trees, the flowers, the grass grow in deep silence.

The more we receive in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Silence gives us a new way of looking at everything.

We need the silence in order to touch souls.

The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and what He says through us.