…Common to all who pray is the certainty that prayer is an act which makes the heart audible to God. Who would pour most precious hopes into an abyss? Essential is the metaphysical rather than the physical dimension of prayer. Prayer is not a thought that rambles alone in the world, but an event that starts in us and ends in God. What goes on in our heart is a humble preliminary to an event in God. The passage of hours, almost unnoticeable, but leaving behind the feeling of loss or omission, is either an invitation to despair or a ladder to eternity. This little time in our hands melts away ere it can be formed. We hand over our time to God in the secrecy of single words. When anointed by prayer, thoughts and deeds do not sink into nothingness, but merge into the endless knowledge of an all-embracing God. We yield our thoughts to one who endowed us with a chain of days for the duration of life.