The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.

It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'

When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.