I asked #SisterWendy if she was familiar with Simone Weil's essay on the importance of attention. She said: "All attention, if it is true attention, is attention to God. It’s attention that makes us alive, not attention to ourselves, but to what is....
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...If we look truly at creation we will see God reflected back to us. And if we look truly at God we will see God reflected in creation. I don’t like dividing the human race into those who are real = attentive, and those who are just sleepers. Our Lord never gives up on people.
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...I think you can teach attention even if it may not be of the quality that some people have naturally. Like many things we must practice it. Isn’t that what growth in prayer is all about – learning painfully to be attentive?"--Sr. Wendy Beckett

Apr 20, 2020 · 8:26 PM UTC
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