Stephen Copeland

A jazz saxophonist once put it this way: “Music pulls me deeper into being.” 

There is nothing wrong with asking for something in prayer, as this names for God the desires of our hearts.

I wanted to spend some time with what Father Cyprian shared. “Dialogue is not a crossing of two monologues,” he said.

All of these things are there for us to discover within ourselves. I’ll close with this line from another great memoirist, Elizabeth Gilbert: “I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure.”

Keep bringing the fullness of your heart into every situation. Keep being relentlessly kind. The rest will take care of itself.

Let yourself pray without asking God for “something that I want.”