Carol on Prayer
from “Mom’s Journals”

August 8 — Carol on Prayer

1. Why pray?
2. How do we pray?
3. father knows needs before we ask
4. recollection
   1. opposite of distraction
   2. fully recollected when we are completely enveloped in our prayer
   3. make distractions part of prayer
   4. carry theme all day
   5. try never to be separated from God
   6. try to look at things from God’s point of view – what he is trying to teach you
   7. living in the presence of God
   8. self is the opposite of the Lord.
5. contemplation
   1. higher of the two
   2. contemplating on truth – God dwelling within us
   3. St. Theresa – Divine Union, science of love, sitting in presence of the Lord — absorbed into his presence
   4. St. Thomas – gaze at Truth under the influence of love
   5. gift the Lord gives you after you strive for it
   6. {helps} get rid of anything that can’t be held up before the Lord
   7. {helps} should have method
      1. think who you’re talking to
      2. think of aspect of Lord, etc. & make that your meditation
         1. draw all you can from it – feelings
         2.  
         3. resolve that you’re going to stay close to the Lord
6. Helps
   1. consecrate a certain time to Christ
   2. put aside all but Him
   3. be ready and willing to sit at His feet
7. Love in your heart makes everything a prayer – when the Spirit of God is within us – Jake