One of my "five to stay alive" has been silence/meditation ("use silence to get in touch with the Light within me"), and I've decided that I'm changing the word for that to "prayer." I've been reading two books on prayer recently - one Sacred Heart (Seeking the One Whom We Love: How RSCJs Pray) and one Quaker (Finding God in the Verbs: Crafting a Fresh Language of Prayer), and I'm surprised by how similarly they describe what I call "meditation" as "prayer." I'm going to own it! I have even started to keep a notebook of prayers, many of which I took from a previous blog post about my favorite meditations :)
Update: Seeking the One Whom We Love is titled after a quote from St. Madeleine Sophie Barat that speaks to this embracing of the diversity of prayer. She said, "It doesn't matter how you pray, as long as your heart seeks the One whom you love."
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