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"...St Teresa [of Avila]... emphatically insisted that the primary need for beginners [to further their prayer life] was not to find the ideal method*, but to do God's will from moment to moment throughout the day... "The whole aim of any person...should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will... It is the person who lives in more perfect conformity who will receive more from the Lord and be more advanced...This King doesn't give Himself but to those who give themselves entirely to Him." " (*emphasis mine)
St Teresa of Avila, as quoted in Fr Thomas Dubay's "The Fire Within", Ignatius, San Francisco, 1989, p112
posted by Holly at 10:43 PM
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If our prayer life seems boring and we can't seem to find God, the answer doesn't lie with techniques of centering, or breathing, or other 'means' of getting God to come to us.
Our prayer life is fueled by how we live, and in this instance, only by a mere change of heart -
We don't need to go out and do great large wonderful things across the world for others... we can do the same things as we always do right in our own homes...
But the difference is our intent - why we do what we do, and thus, how we do what we do...
"I do this for love you you Jesus, because YOU ask it of me, out of love for YOU!" instead of... "I feel like doing this right now..."
Changing our daily focus - taking it off ourselves... and placing it on God - offering ourselves to him and letting our actions and their heart-focus be on doing His Will, will fire our dry & boring prayer into flame.
Having difficulty with our spiritual lives?
Let's re-start doing things because God asks us to... Following our 5 Ps, quite simply, "Because" He asks it of us, instead of because we want to, like to, hate to or 'whim' to...
God is a change-of-intention away...
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