Is prayer not just a sort of conversation with yourself?
The distinctive feature about prayer is precisely the fact that one goes from Me to You, from self-centeredness to radical openness. Someone who is really praying can experience the fact that God speaksand that often he does not speak as we expect and would like.
Those who are experienced in prayer report that a person very often comes out of a prayer session different from the way he went in. Sometimes expectations are met: you are sad and find consolation; you lack confidence and receive new strength. It can also happen, though, that you would like to forget pressures but are made even more uneasy; that you would like to be left in peace and instead receive an assignment. A real encounter with Godthe kind that occurs again and again in prayercan shatter our preconceptions about both God and prayer. (YOUCAT question 506)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2729-2733) and other references here.
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