week 41: Evelyn Underhill

Prayer is our soul's response to God's immense attraction, and this response begins in the activity of the will.  Will and desire are the heart of the mental life turned to God.  This is not mere pious reverie.  As Saint Teresa says, at the beginning of our prayer life, we have to draw the living water out of the well.  It is hard work.  We can't leave it to chance.  God requires our communion with Him to be an act, an effort, and to cost something.  Think of the trouble we give ourselves to get time to be with those whom we love.  Is it not ever so much more important to make a way to commune with God?