Prayer and meditation have an important part to play in opening up new ways and new horizons. If your prayer is the expression of a deep and grace-inspired desire for newness of life—and not the mere blind attachment to what has always been familiar and "safe"—God will act in us and to prepare what we cannot yet imagine or understand. In this way our prayer and faith today will be oriented toward the future which we ourselves may never see fully realized on earth.
Then Silence
will gather all the words
within itself,
the graves will return
in the ocean of eternity.
And every word
that has been spoken
about peace and love
will be recognized
like a bright light
by that spirit
that has come to rest.