Stuck on the lowest rung of prayer: after years of trying to shape up, she finds grace, courage in intercession.(Spirituality)

National Catholic Reporter | December 14, 2007| | Copyright

Over the past few months, as my religious congregation has engaged in a process of examining our spirituality in today's global context, I have found myself looking at the history of my prayer over the last 45 years or so. And I realized, not for the first time, but with more focus, that I never knew prayer was a problem until I entered religious life. I had thought prayer was simply part of life.

The first problem for me was the form of prayer that is sometimes called "discursive meditation." It is a thinking-oriented approach, and I couldn't do it. Luckily, in the ...

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