Classic Saturday on Monday morning. This week's devotional classic comes from Jean-Nicholas Grou (1730-1803). Grou was a Jesuit priest from France/Holland who spent much of his adult life writing and speaking on spirtual growth, particularly the practice of prayer. An excerpt from How to Pray:
The Voice of the Heart
"You ask me what this voice of the heart is. It is love which is the voice of the heart. Love God and you will always be speaking to Him. The seed of love is growth in prayer. If you do not understand that, you have never yet either loved or prayed. Ask God to open your heart and kindle in it a spark of his love, and then you will begin to understand what praying means.
If it is the heart that prays, it is evident that sometimes, and even continuously, it can pray by itself without any help from words, spoken or conceived....If we do make use of words or formal acts in prayer, it is not so much for God's sake as our own in that they help us to keep our attention fixed in his presence. Our weakness often calls for the help of such acts, but they are not of the essence of prayer."
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