June 29
“Prayer, true prayer, is a communication—and it occurs only when two people, two minds, are truly present to each other in some way. So in prayer we must do more than merely visualize God as present as some sort of father figure. His fictionalized presence will not do; his imaginative presence will not do.
By faith we know that God is present everywhere and is always present to us if we but turn to him. So it is we who must put ourselves in God’s presence, we who must turn to him in faith, we who must leap beyond an image to the belief—indeed the realization—that we are in the presence of a loving Father who stands always ready to listen to our childish stories and to answer to our childlike trust."
-Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
Today’s Reflection:
True prayer calls us beyond imagination into real relationship. It asks us to be present, to recognize by faith that God is already there—listening, loving, waiting for us to turn to Him with trust as His beloved children. When you pray, do you place yourself fully in God’s presence—or are you settling for the idea of Him instead of the reality?
