God's word is liberating, transforming, and living for us. The question is not what was Jesus asking of the people of his day. From such meditative reading, the next movement is to prayer, to a quiet presence before the Lord to movement in our hearts of thanksgiving, sorrow, adoration, or petition. This involves our hearts more than our heads. The final step is contemplation.
Contemplation is both a relaxation of our faculties and their total alertness.
It is the gaze of the heart, total attention to the Lord. It is the Lord praying in us rather than our prayer. Home Site maintained by Sr.