I then really did put it in his hands and that was all that was needed to be said or done. Take time to meditate, to praise. Then refreshed go back out into the world again. The question of where to come and pray is sometimes a stumbling block. Usually we want somewhere that is conducive to putting aside the world.
Retreats are wonderful but tend to be taken only at the most, annually.
Frequently the comfortable pew in church on Sunday morning and the familiar words of the Prayer Book are the means we use to satisfy our needs. Actually not only Anglicans think that way. I was none too happy about that. I had always believed that God was not in a box or a building, but there s a world of difference between believing something up here, in the head, and acknowledging it down here, in the heart. When they asked him, Jesus did tell his disciples how to pray but he didn t tell them where to pray.