Close hands. Close eyes. Make your requests.
C’mon, admit it: This is probably how most of us pray. (If we pray much at all.) So how about a lesson on how to pray from the late Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa, who spent more than 40 years serving the poor in India.
In No Greater Love, she says prayer can be difficult because we don’t know how, yet we must learn. She starts with something quite simple but still difficult in this modern world:
“The first means to use is silence. We cannot put ourselves directly in the presence of God if we do not practice internal and external silence.”
As a father of three children, I know how difficult it can be to find that silence during the day. But it is possible. So turn off the television. Turn off the iPod. Get rid of any noise or sounds and start to pray like a saint!
