Conversation With God

The first essential for conversation is a common language. If you are travelling with a stranger in a train he may have many interesting things to say, and you, no doubt, would like to talk too, or perhaps, in quite exceptional circumstances you would be willing even to listen. But you are both up against a stone wall. He speaks German only, and you English only. After a few attempts & communicate by smiles and signs, you give up the effort, which, plainly, is useless, and you bury yourself once more in the pages of your book.

Prayer is conversation with God. It is the meeting place between God and the soul. To Him the soul addresses itself: “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth.” Perhaps we too often want to monopolize the conversation. We are so anxiouslyconcerned to “get in” a self-imposed programme of prayers that there may be a danger lest we speak with our lips only, and our hearts remain far from God. There can be a subtle pride in the feeling of satisfaction that we have said five rosaries and made the Stations three times, and added on the Thirty Days‟ Prayer and a few novenas for good measure.