A LIVING PRAYER BENCH, ROSTREVOR, NORTHERN IRELAND In my last posting I shared with you a breakthrough in my personal prayer life, several things coming together which became a new foundation. So that my experience might be more helpful to you I thought I'd pull apart the pieces of that experience to share some semblance of a path, however imperfect, that you might wander upon in your own prayer journey. My initial intention for the day was simply to pray, to seek, to knock hoping for the door to be opened as Jesus tells us in the Gospel. What I could not plan for was what would come from what seemed a rather simple posture of openness. With a single question in mind I opened my journal to answer the question: What are your images of God right now? I sat with the question for only a moment when like water flowing over a waterfall or the rush of rapids all the pious sounding platitudes--well rehearsed from years of repetition--spilled onto the page. There were th
