Prayer via Google

It is so funny what comes up with a Google search. I wanted to get the quotes from Anthony Bloom's book Beginning to Pray without having to find the page by looking through the book. Here's what I found:

Being with God is the end itself, not the means to any other end. A good example of this is from the late Russian Orthodox archbishop Anthony Bloom who tells of an eighteenth-century priest who once asked an aged peasant what he was doing during the hours he spent sitting in the chapel. The old man replied, "I look at Him, He looks at me, and we are happy." [Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray (New York: Paulist Press 1970), 62.]

And this was found on a wonderful site about "Prayers" at Ministries with Youth (Presbyterian Church U.S.A.) There are descriptions of and instructions about Contemplative Prayer, the Jesus Prayer, Breath Prayer, Centering Prayer, and Praying with Music that inform and inspire any age level! I am so impressed! Go and look here.

Another site that I discovered had suggestions about prayer by Graham Kings, from a Fulcrum Newsletter, March 2006, about "Listening in Lent."

He wrote:

In the Anglican Kenyan Service of Morning Prayer there is a moving prayer, based around Psalm 16:11, which may be used after a period of silence:

Your silence is full, irresistible;
your presence is joy unspeakable.
People drifting into mind
we lift to you and pray they find
health in sickness,
life in deadness,
strength in weakness,
light in darkness.
Their loss you bear, mysteriously;
Your peace you share, eternally.

~Anglican Church of Kenya, Our Modern Services (Nairobi: Uzima Press, 2002), p15