There are moments when our prayer rises to God easily, with a rush of feeling, with a blessing or a request, with the desire to be forgiven or simply to be heard. In other moments we want to pray, but words fail us. We cannot find them. We do not know how to speak.
There are also moments when we feel our bond with our brothers and sisters deepen in an hour spent praying together, and moments when we stand alone to face our difficulties.
There are moments when we simply want to speak with the Lord about what happens to us, about our daily life, our questions, our place in the world before Him—before Jesus—and before our brothers.
Michel Quoist, author of many widely loved works, returns with this new book of prayers. He offers us the words we long to say but cannot find, and shows us how to pray in every season of life.
These prayers are conversations with the Lord, the reflections we cannot put into words. They are beautiful, simple, profound prayers—about the weariness of each day, about joy and fear, about the mystery of suffering, about our brothers who are strangers to us, about our desire to open ourselves to others. There is, for example, a prayer to "live the smallest details of our life with great love," a prayer for the moment of "the temptation to lose heart before what we must do," a prayer for "the Christian facing illness and death," a prayer asking us to "break the loneliness by reaching out to our neighbor," a prayer about "trust and fear in the face of the future," a prayer for those who question "the meaning of life," a prayer about "the smallness of humanity in the vastness of the world and of history," a prayer about "the tragedy of the underdevelopment of peoples."
And many others.
Bring these prayers into our homes, among our friends, into our communities. Read them alone and together with others.
Give this book to those we love: it will be another way to be with them in the presence of the Lord.
- Natalia Livi, 1993
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