{"id":2429,"date":"2011-01-31T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T09:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2011\/01\/mindful-monday-pray-as-if-its.html"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T09:33:15","slug":"mindful-monday-pray-as-if-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/01\/mindful-monday-pray-as-if-its.html","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Monday: Pray As If It’s Your First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following reflection by Thomas Merton was published in a collection of Merton’s letters entitled “The Hidden Ground of Love.”
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There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.
\nThere must be a time of day when the man who has to speak falls very silent. And his mind forms no more propositions, and he asks himself: Did they have a meaning?
\nThere must be a time when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he had ever prayed, when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and he learns a different wisdom: distinguishing the sun from the moon, the stars from the darkness, the sea from the dry land, and the night sky from the shoulder of a hill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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