Continuing the Quest for a Deeper Prayer Life
Two of the greatest ingredients to learning to pray is cultivating both longing and love for God. The more I pursue passion for God, the more I long for a greater depth of intimacy with God, the greater my desire to pray grows. In fact, I have learned that no desire for prayer is a great tip off in my spirit that there is something amiss in my longing and love for God. It (no desire for prayer) is the “canary in the mine” alerting me to spiritual danger in my life. How about you? What do you use as an early warning system to your spiritual health?
“Another kind of ‘prayer without ceasing” is longing.
Do not cease from prayer, no matter what else you do, if you are seeking after your day of never-ending rest. Do not allow your longing to end, if you desire to never stop praying. Longing is your unrelenting voice. Your heart will become silent, when love fades. The call of your heart is your blazing passion! If longing consumes you forevermore, you will keep calling out to God. Then it will be certain that God hears your cry, when your love continues unabated.”
from Confessions and the City of God
by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430 A.D.)Cited in Prayer as a Total Lifestyle:
Learning from the Greatest lives of Prayer (by S.G. Preston)
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