One of things about St. Teresa of Ávila that surprises me most is that she spent years struggling to pray. In The Book of My Life, she talks about life in the convent when she was young and says that she was filled with enormous shame around her lack of prayer life.
Read MoreIn our present times, I find that I often struggle with all the different ways the word “meditation” is used. Meditation is talked about and taught everywhere in our current mindfulness and spirituality culture, and there are a multitude of ways it can be practiced.
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