If we do not allow prayer to assume its natural place as the centering dynamic of life, our prayer life, whether individual or communal, will be like planting seeds in tarmac.

If we do not allow prayer to assume its natural place as the centering dynamic of life, our prayer life, whether individual or communal, will be like planting seeds in tarmac. We may replant them season after season, but Godot will arrive sooner than any sustained growth and development in prayer. When prayer becomes what orders our day, as something we attempt to live out of moment by moment, rather than the tail pinned blindly onto the donkey of daily life, then prayer will integrate us into itself.

MARTIN LAIRD
FROM A SUNLIT ABSENCE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011)

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