Daily Reflections
"PRAYER UNITES US TO GOD
Prayer unites the soul to God...Prayer is a witness that the soul wills as God wills, and it eases the conscience and fits us for grace. And so, God teaches us to pray and to have firm trust that we shall have it; for God beholds us love, and wants to make us partners in his good will and work. And so he moves us to pray for what it pleases him to do, and for this prayer and good desire which come to us by his gift he will repay us...
...the whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray, wonderfully rejoicing with reverent fear, and with so much sweetness and delight in him that we cannot pray at all except as he moves us at the time. "
Prayer unites the soul to God...Prayer is a witness that the soul wills as God wills, and it eases the conscience and fits us for grace. And so, God teaches us to pray and to have firm trust that we shall have it; for God beholds us love, and wants to make us partners in his good will and work. And so he moves us to pray for what it pleases him to do, and for this prayer and good desire which come to us by his gift he will repay us...
...the whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray, wonderfully rejoicing with reverent fear, and with so much sweetness and delight in him that we cannot pray at all except as he moves us at the time. "
—Julian of Norwich