Scripture: Colossians 2:6-7
Journal: What does it look like to walk in God? How does that take place? What does it look like to be rooted and
built up in him? How will you make
that a possibility in your daily life?
Reflection: I had come to wonder sometimes at the lack of
depth in my prayer. I began to worry,
too, at the sense of imbalance in my life and at the lack of centeredness as
well. I began to wonder if those things
had a connection to my prayer. I began
to realize that the longing that I had, and have, for the presence of God could
no longer be filled by a few stolen moments of extemporaneous prayer. I began to have a sneaking suspicion that
prayer was a larger and deeper and richer and more astonishing thing than I had
known before. I began to desire a way of
life that was more like the lively and reasonable sacrifice that is called for
by the words of the Eucharist.
Although my life had been spent largely in
the church and around people of faith, I had had a growing sense that I could
go no deeper in my journey without some manner of instruction and experience in
some ways of prayer other than the one I already knew. “We fool ourselves if we think that such a
sacramental way of living is automatic,” wrote Richard Foster once, in a book
about prayer and discipline. “This kind
of living communion does not just fall on our heads. We must desire it and seek it out. We must order our lives in particular ways.”
(A Good Life by Robert Benson)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: O my God, teach me to seek you, for I cannot
seek you unless you teach me, or find you unless you show yourself to me. Let me seek you in my desire, and desire you
in my seeking. Let me find you by loving
you, let me love you when I find you. ~St. Anselm of Canterbury
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