Relax. Take a Deep Breath—Echoes of the Salesian Spirit, from Kathleen Norris
During this Lenten season, a time when we are called to a deeper conversion of heart, the words of Kathleen Norris, a great spiritual writer from the Benedictine tradition, echoes the Salesian spirit.
We make such a fuss about seeking God. We are anxious about so many things, and faith, prayer, and searching for God are not excepted. Are we doing it right? Will a retreat teach us a better way? Which method of prayer will be most effective for us? What church congregation will best fit us spiritually? Probably the best thing we can do is relax, take a deep breath, stop thinking about what we want or need, and forget about it. Seeking God, that is. Instead, we might wait, and begin to silently ponder the ways in which God may already have been seeking us, all along, in the faulty, scary stuff of our ordinary lives.
—from Amazing Grace, 1998, p. 299.