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The quickest way to transform your relationship with God is stop talking to yourself, & simply direct your inner dialogue to God. All of it. Right or left turn. Chocolate or vanilla. Instantly, your life becomes a prayer with no extra effort. I began this several years ago and 1/
Was amazed at I transformed as a person, how deep I went, and how quickly. Others begin notice, both the good ones and troubled, your love increases, your understanding of His love increases, & ability to withstand suffering increases dramatically. Try it. It’s so simple.
This will sound odd, but eventually you begin to feel as if your thoughts and your emotions are *united* with his. You’ll feel sorrow, joy, & anger in sometimes surprising ways. For me, I’m confrontational when I’d normally be, & more when I wouldn’t. Sadness for ppl who hurt 3/
You start to see Him in others more, and it’s harder to hate. There is righteous anger, too. One of the blessing also is that you can feel when these emotions are getting off track, notice that you’re not quite as united as last week, and realize it’s time for confession. 4/
Anyway, I could go on for days about the desire to sacrifice, & how some things stop mattering. But, sadly, I’m not a priest. I’m just a man who was very worldly for a time who is astounded at how easily God can transform with this simple effortless step. End.
The enemy knows this. He knows he can’t invade this type of prayer. The innermost thoughts of a child of God, being directed intentionally toward God. He’ll throw EVERYTHING at you when you begin. When that doesn’t work, he’ll distract. There’s so much noise in the world now ...
And, until you become very good at it, he’ll succeed now and then. But the beauty of it is that you won’t be doing it alone at that point. At a certain point, God begins to act on you. And He gives you what Theresa of Avila called “spiritual delights.” These types of ...
encounters, whether it be a word packed with a library of meaning, or a glimpse of understanding of a mystery, the healing of a memory, or any number of things, these encounters with the divine give you an unshakeable confidence that God exists, and a burning desire ...
To know Him more. So, yeah, you’ll fail. But once you reach a certain point, there’s no turning back, because you know with supernatural confidence that life without unity with God is dross. So you pick yourself back up, and you talk to Him again. Seriously, try it.
I think this is is what "Abide in me, and I in you" means (John 15)(pic related).
And what 1 Thess 5:17 means (“Pray without ceasing.”)
I was just looking at my sons & realizing I soak up everything they want to say to me & remembering when they were chatty babies who made no sense. Just googoo & Gaga. I couldn’t get enough.
The Father is the same way w/ every thought directed at Him. Even more so.
Try it.
The Father is the same way w/ every thought directed at Him. Even more so.
Try it.
“The contemplative life tramples on all cares, and longs to see the face of its Creator.” St. Gregory the Great.
“As the soul grows in spirituality, the more it ceases from the operation of its faculties in particular acts, for it becomes more & more engaged in 1 act which is general & pure;” St. John of the Cross. Ascent, II, xii, 6.
“There are also the faintest breaths of God on the soul, whereby it knows it is drawn to something rather than to say it feels God’s presence.” 1/2
“But at other times the spirit of man experiences by ways he does not know, that God is present,& experiences this with an assurance he cannot prove but only know he has. Then he has known for those moments true contemplative prayer.” Dominic M. Hoffman, O.P., The Life Within.
