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Heschel This Week — More on Prayer

…there is a wider voluntary entrance to prayer than sorrow and despair — the opening of our thoughts to God.  We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him.  So we open our thoughts to Him — feeble our tongues, but sensitive our hearts.  We see more than we can say.

Mindfullness of God rises slowly, a thought at a time. Suddenly we are there.  Or is He here, at the margin of our soul?  When we begin to feel a qualm of diffidence lest we hurt what is holy, lest we break what is whole, then we discover that He not austere.  Repentent of forgetting Him even for a while, we become sharers of gentle joy…



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