tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post6572921647189994117..comments2024-03-01T14:26:39.432+01:00Comments on Sophia's Mirror: On the Silent Wings of PrayerEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344595922514131573noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-90601657678975247312016-06-21T13:15:50.369+02:002016-06-21T13:15:50.369+02:00This is indeed what I believe, Hettienne, and how ...This is indeed what I believe, Hettienne, and how I see things. This 'wordless prayer' is of necessity devoid of all prescribed formulas which can come between direct contact with the spirit. To contemplate the Divine is in itself an act of prayer.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344595922514131573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-2324558943924888682016-06-21T08:51:28.059+02:002016-06-21T08:51:28.059+02:00Our ordinary everyday lives are all acts of worshi...Our ordinary everyday lives are all acts of worship - our minds are temmples of the Divine - it just depends on which aspect of the Divine we worship. Often we believe we act in love and in an effort to help another, but we cannot see beyond the intent and the veil, so I agree with you, Emma, prayer devoid of word and thought is true prayer from the Void, from the All, pure and powerful beyond mind.Hettienne Groblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-3682649555714649412016-06-12T19:56:15.776+02:002016-06-12T19:56:15.776+02:00I am truly grateful that my post did resonate with...I am truly grateful that my post did resonate with you, dear Rajna. It is what I can only hope for when I am writing, that others find their own connections with what I write.♥♥♥<br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344595922514131573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-64208980947160547112016-06-11T22:06:05.606+02:002016-06-11T22:06:05.606+02:00I've never discuss on this topic with anybody....I've never discuss on this topic with anybody. For the first time in my life somebody , you dear Emma, said out loud what I felt and thought since ever. Thank you.<br />And I've found myself in Debora's words. My temple is the Divine Nature, as well. ♥ Rajnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04502175987796128394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-11216679769230902932016-05-31T11:40:36.286+02:002016-05-31T11:40:36.286+02:00Thank you, dearest Deborah, for such a gracious sh...Thank you, dearest Deborah, for such a gracious sharing of your own thoughts about prayer, moving my spirit because they so deeply resonate with me .. as my prayers are mostly wordless .. the sea my church. I am truly grateful that you voiced what your heart feels about prayer. ♥♥♥<br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344595922514131573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-50745551044153229872016-05-31T07:13:35.699+02:002016-05-31T07:13:35.699+02:00Dearest Emma I found much peace and connection fro...Dearest Emma I found much peace and connection from reading your writing here on the concepts of "prayer." My personal upbringing was "spotty" to say the least with regards to any consistency in education, practice or theory of God. Yet since a child I have known in my heart there is more to this world than just me. My heart has always known something deeper, something bigger, that is out there. Yes in a church setting I was taught what "they" taught me about prayer. I, on the other hand, believe what you say about prayer. It is a very personal, intimate and loving connection with the beyond. My choice is a silent prayer and I chose to do it alone. Not in public places, not at dining room tables and not in established religious facilities. I chose to pray in Nature. Where the trees, the seas, the rivers and skies and all living creatures become all of one of the same and my silent without words prayer is lifted into the Sun or the Moon on "The Silent Wings of Prayer." Today is the first time I have ever voiced what my heart feels about prayer and I thank you Emma for this opportunity to share one woman's view of prayer. <3 Deborah Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05841726173049684914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-70049671636827734312016-05-30T18:03:02.574+02:002016-05-30T18:03:02.574+02:00Thank you, dear Joseph, for supplementing my blog ...Thank you, dear Joseph, for supplementing my blog post with such meaningful thoughts from others on this subject. The explanation by Diane Robinson is so touching! I think too that there is a sense in which nature is itself a visible prayer, and in the silences of nature we perhaps more easily attune ourselves to this wordless prayer.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344595922514131573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-71598518761321115742016-05-30T18:02:05.882+02:002016-05-30T18:02:05.882+02:00So true, Joss. We are always surrounded by grace, ...So true, Joss. We are always surrounded by grace, we just need to be open to it!Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344595922514131573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-29789973750518333862016-05-30T01:44:49.174+02:002016-05-30T01:44:49.174+02:00Thank you dear Emma for your beautiful contemplati...Thank you dear Emma for your beautiful contemplation on prayer! I agree that prayer can be wordless and consist of pure intention. There are so many thoughts and opinions on the act of praying but I found something from Mother Teresa that I thought was quite beautiful, <br />“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.” (Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers)<br />When Mother Teresa states that we are 'nothing' I believe she is pointing to our temporal personal identity, the little self. Who we truly are is the eternal Divine, so in Christian terms Mother Teresa states that we are then 'filled with Himself.' Is there a point at which prayer turns into contemplation or meditation? A quote by Diane Robinson has sometimes offered me an easy way to explain meditation to some Christians who are not familiar with it: “Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.” Perhaps the purest intention is a surrendering to the Divine. I think St. Francis expressed this in his prayer, "Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.."<br />And yes I do feel that all of nature is a prayer. Perhaps nature is an expression of the divine Oneness coming back to itself, like a grand circle. When we commune with nature we can feel a deep inner connection without knowing why or comprehending it. When we are in the stillness of one moment perhaps we are opening a gateway to the eternal. Thank you for your wonderful blog.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08209551489584694322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010494928772077300.post-31462066396408892622016-05-29T15:50:11.551+02:002016-05-29T15:50:11.551+02:00A wordless prayer made visible...I think nature in...A wordless prayer made visible...I think nature in all her wisdom often encircles us with unspoken grace.Crowing Crone Josshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485625950182726786noreply@blogger.com