I have always found prayer difficult. So often it seems like a fruitless game of hide-and-seek where we seek and God hides…yet I cannot leave prayer alone for long. My need drives me to God. And I have a feeling that God has God’s own reasons for hiding, and that finally all my seeking will prove infinitely worthwhile. And I am not sure what I mean by “finding.” Some days my very seeking seems a kind of “finding.” And of course, if “finding” means the end of seeking, it were better to go on seeking.
— Anonymous
I fell in love with the words above decades ago when I read them week after week in the opening reflections of my childhood prayerbook, Gates of Prayer. I found great comfort and wisdom in the Jewish idea that our searching can be just as important as our final destination, that our questions are often just as valuable–if not more so–as our answers.
Even with everything we are managing during these days at home, may we allow ourselves to make space for prayer, for self-care, for reflection, and of course, for seeking.
— Cantor Emma Lutz