At times frustrating, at times feelings of being lost or wasting time, yet never far from the center and always circling in nearer and nearer, until you arrive - where you have never ceased to be all the time of the journey while you were on the way. An early Christian writer once compared the mystery of God to a circle, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. You cannot measure the spiritual. So we do not have to measure or evaluate prayer. Jesus said he knew where he came from and where he was going.
Prayer is a journey into self-knowledge.
As we gradually unhook from our selfish self-centeredness and egotism, we grow in the knowledge of who we truly are. Daily meditation is the ordinary process of realizing this. In every journey there are stages, even though, because it is a spiritual journey, we cannot measure them. Labyrinths are being built in churches, retreat centers, public places and hospitals. At least several Houston-area churches have permanent or portable labyrinths.