Thursday, August 22, 2013

John O’Donohue: Prayerful Presence


There are so many broken places where our prayer is needed each day. We should be generous with our prayer. It is important to recognize the extent and intensity of spirit that prayer awakens and sends out. Prayer is not about the private project of making yourself holy and turning yourself into a shining temple that blinds everyone else. Prayer has a deeper priority, … the sanctification of the world of which you are a privileged inhabitant. … If you could but see what your prayer could do, you would always want to be in the presence that it awakens...
Prayerful presence transfigures everything. We will never understand the power of our prayer to effect change and to bring shelter to others.
- John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes

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