Diversity

Since every human being is different in his way of being, feeling and acting, their prayer or “relationship of friendship” develops innovations and urgencies broad as an open fan: emotional states, rhythm of growth, age, psychosomatic dispositions, feelings….

Not only is the prayer of each person essentially different, but the prayer of that same person may vary from one situation to another, one time to another, even one day to another, or one hour to another.

The way of facing the world around us or facing people with whom one has relationships is different in a child, an adolescent, a male, a female, a youth, or the elderly. It is different in a person who is audacious, or timid, or impatient or calm. So too does a relationship with God vary.

From the book “Journey Towards God” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga