I know it takes time to develop a life of prayer: set-aside, disciplined, deliberate time. It isn't accomplished on the run, nor by offering prayers from a pulpit or at a hospital bedside. I know I can't be busy and pray at the same time. I can be active and pray; I can work and pray; but I cannot be busy and pray. I cannot be inwardly rushed, distracted or dispersed. In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than my clamouring ego. usually for this to happen there must be a deliberate withdrawal from the noise of the day, a disciplined detachment from the insatiable self.
The Contemplative Pastor, p20.
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