When a friend visited you from a long distance, you took her to a wooded park and had a wonderful conversation looking over a meadow.
Weeks later you revisit the meadow and recall the meaningful experience of being together with your friend. The memory is so vivid it’s almost like reliving it. You feel a deep peace.
That is prayer.
On occasion, I read a scripture, and I stop on a word. For whatever reason, it provokes thoughts and I cannot rush past, because if I do, I will miss radiant and transcendent beauty.
I stop.
When you read a scripture, and you meet your best friend Jesus there, revisit the meadow of inspiration.
Revisit the place where you had such joy together.
When a scripture passage comes alive to you, go back to it again and again for further consolations.
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