{"id":108,"date":"2006-02-21T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/21\/difficulty-in-prayer"},"modified":"2006-02-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:27:00","slug":"difficulty-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/difficulty-in-prayer.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficulty in prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anglocath.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/what-to-do-what-to-do.html\">Hilary writes some more, this time on prayer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today I had a conversation with Fr. Spiritual Director about prayer. I said that I simply didn&#8217;t know how to pray. What does it consist of? How do you know when you are praying and when you are just sitting there thinking <em>about<\/em> God? When you are daydreaming? When you are merely thinking or spacing out?<\/p>\n<p>I am certainly aware that most of the time when I want to be, I am <em>not<\/em> praying. I am conscious of being repelled by prayer as well as nearly equally drawn to it. The struggle to enter into prayer is the most immediate battle in fighting the Giant.<\/p>\n<p>I told Fr. Sp.D. that I really didn&#8217;t understand prayer and it was a big obstacle to trying it. (Here&#8217;s a secret for you all, if you see me &#8220;praying&#8221; in church, it is likely that I am sitting there doing something entirely different.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have the same problem&#8230; have know it for at least twenty years.  I hope Hilary can eventually share what Fr.Sp.D. advised as the correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary writes some more, this time on prayer: Today I had a conversation with Fr. Spiritual Director about prayer. I said that I simply didn&#8217;t know how to pray. What does it consist of? How do you know when you are praying and when you are just sitting there thinking about God? When you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}