Prayer-Filled Life
Our heart’s steady attention on God.

The Contemplative Tradition continually draws us into love for God, reminding us that the Christian life is less like a rule book and more like falling in love.  It stresses the value of silence, solitude, and prayer as ways we engage with God’s presence, whether we take a silent walk in the early morning, ride the bus to work, wash dishes while the kids nap, or even take a nap ourselves.  As Teresa of Avila described, contemplation is “an intimate sharing between friends,” in the time or manner that works best for you and God.

Put simply, the contemplative life is the steady gaze of the soul upon the God who loves us.
~ Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water