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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