A thoughtless prayer
Every prayer reaches God (we are told)
but rarely is God moved by mere thought
and words to descend upon a lover
and make a meeting place within the heart.
Yet, a thoughtless prayer might be proffered,
not in a closet but perhaps in a blind spot,
where the mind’s enticements simply echo
emptily – deep in the heart-cave
where there’s no outside reception,
a soft spot in the stone, within a cloud
of unknowing, where the one-pointed
silence of non-existence reigns
and there, may a soul pray without words
for a descent, an interfusion (by His grace),
a cry to God that arrives where no thought
can reach, only love, only love, only love.
O child of God, the most effective prayer
is inexpressible longing.
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