Paraclete Press out of Brewster, Mass., republished this book written over 80 years ago. A friend of mine, well read in the field of spirituality, said that it was the best book on prayer that he has ever read. Here are several passages from E. Herman's Creative Prayer , which spoke to me about the need to come apart and be with the Lord. Prayer in its essence is communion with God. Hopefully all of us have had the experience of sitting down at a table with a friend and entering into serious conversation.
Every real prayer is the soul's response to that love in an act of self-surrender.
The life of prayer is the life of conversion - a gradual, progressive turning from self to God. Our notion of God is central not only to prayer but to the entirety of our Christian life. Since we are made to God's image and likeness we come to our own sense of identity by knowing something of the mystery of God. God is love. St. Paul knew that and speaks about the peace that follows from surrendering ourselves to God's loving design.