"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

On day three, I decided that a power outage would make a great spiritual practice.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.

In my case, the attention deficit was all mine. I had moved to the country in order to lie down in more blessed fields, to live closer to the Divine Presence that had held me all my life, but I had once again become so busy caring for the household of God that I neglected the One who had called me there. If I still had plenty of energy for the work, that was because feeding others was still my food. As long as I fed them, I did not feel my hunger pains.