We are learning to pray, not by speaking or asking for things, but by becoming still enough to see clearly. The early desert monastics remind us that prayer is not about changing God but about changing our perception. When we quiet our inner noise, we begin to notice how often our reactions distort reality. We seek dispassion not to become detached, but to become grounded and free from the patterns that block our awareness. This shift is not dramatic, but steady and deliberate. Prayer is the awakening of an inner dialogue that, from God’s side, had never stopped. It’s a return to clarity, to seeing without interference. We stop using God to escape life and instead allow the presence of God to illuminate life as it is. Here and now is enough—if we are truly present.
May we be still enough to perceive clearly, and in that clarity,
allow the presence of God to transform how we see.
(inspired by Richard Rohr, Just This)
Well said.
We need to treasure this truth deep within our hearts more than ever in these chaotic and unstable
times.