For many of us, prayer is a retreat - a solace from the struggles and harshness of everyday life. While there is nothing wrong with this, we are also called to go deeper. If our prayer remains at this level, it will remain superficial and we will struggle to ever enter into intimacy with God. But once prayer becomes our life - then everything changes! We understand and experience God with us always, in the joys and the sorrows. We can continually commune with the indwelling Trinity anywhere at anytime. This understanding of the Divine Indwelling is the beauty of the Carmelite Spiritual Tradition, it is what we call “Practicing the Presence of God”.
God deserves more and desires to be with us more than just during a few vocal prayers in the morning when we wake up or before going to bed. There is nothing wrong with this and it’s a fantastic start. But prayer needs to become our life, as the Catechism #2697 says quoting St Gregory Naxianzus “We must remember God more often than we draw breath“
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