What leads us to make such a statement? Life is somehow not all put together without the element of prayer. There is a real sense of need. There is an incompleteness, an inability to cope with or adequately respond to life’s demands. We sense a need to fall back on prayer.
The needs of others, which duty or love or both demand we experience in some way as our own, do nudge us or even compel us to be in touch with our own needs-needs that are in fact very much the same.
There surface in us if we dare leave enough space in our rushed lives to allow it, or if circumstances, as they often do, trap us in a situation where we can’t avoid it, some of our own needs-above all, perhaps, our loneliness, our incompleteness, our lacks, our inability to be and to do what we want. Excerpt from Centering Prayer, M. Basil Pennington
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