Faith Venture

Do you find that sometimes you sit down to prayer or meditation and just cannot find peace.

Some advice from, Jeanne de Chantal, “It sometimes happens that you go to your prayer after having spent the whole day dissipated and without recollection; it is no wonder you are distracted, for you well deserve it. You follow your own inclinations, you are cross-grained and resentful in your obedience, lacking in sweetness, and condescending towards your neighbor, and then you go boldly to prayer in order to unite yourself to God and to have consolation and sweetness. If you find the door shut, why should you be surprised?”

Yes, the fault when prayer goes dry comes back to us. Remember the advice of Jesus about forgiving the brother before praying at the temple?

Go and do likewise.

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