Prayer is largely just being silent:
holding the tension instead of even talking it through, offering the moment
instead of fixing it by words and ideas, loving reality as it is instead of
understanding it fully. Prayer is commonly a willingness to say “I don’t know.”
We must not push the river, we must just trust that we are already in the
river, and God is the certain flow and current.
That may be impractical, but the way of faith is
not the way of efficiency. So much of life is just a matter of listening and
waiting, and enjoying the expansiveness that comes from such willingness to
hold. It is like carrying and growing a baby: women wait and trust and hopefully
eat good food, and the baby is born.
Richard Rohr
