Deep silence leads us to realize that prayer is, above all, acceptance. When we pray, we are standing with our hands open to the world. We know that God will become known to us in the nature around us, in the people we meet, in situations we run into. We trust that the world holds God’s secret within and we expect that secret to be shown to us. Prayer creates that openness in which God is given to us. Indeed, God wants to be admitted into the human heart, received with open hands, and loved with the same love with which we have been created.
--Henri Nouwen
Image source: Sant’Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, https://www.templestudy.com/2008/02/12/early-christian-orant-gesture-in-prayer/
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