“When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.”
—Henri Nouwen
What festive or still moment has felt to you like prayer?
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Times spent in nature, especially if there’s no one else around. I feel the presence of the divine much more in the woods or at the beach than in church.
When I am sitting, waiting to be called in for a Doctor’s appointment, I look around at the other people waiting. I wonder what they are thinking: how serious they consider their medical situation to be; how many already know that a serious situation is already at hand. Then I ruminate on why I am there and what I hope for as a response or opinion from the Doctor. Even though we have the resource of the web for medical information, it is that time when I am wondering about the hopes and fears and perhaps prayers that are taking hold of the minds of all of us….waiting.