Silent Prayer
The third-grade sunday-school class was discussing “prayer”, and the children seemed aware that the way you end a prayer was with “amen.” Does anyone know what “amen” means, the teacher asked. There was a long silence. Then one little boy piped up, with appropriate, computer-age gestures, and said, “Well, I think it means, like, “send.”
Probably the most effective prayer of all is when we’re praying beyond words — in the still inner sancturary of the heart.
Anyone can benefit from silent praryer. Gangaji suggests: just pause and recognize the pure silent awareness that is already present within. Take a few moments just to allow your mind to empty whatever concerns or memories or projections of the future may be occurring.
Just let everything come to rest. However easy or difficult it was, you are here now … in the presence of That which you essentially are. And you can receive what is here. To receive that, there’s nothing to do. There’s a time for giving, and there’s a time for taking. This moment is a time simply to receive … no need to send anything to anyone.
