How to Talk With God
Francois de Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon
(1651-1715)
Talk with God with the thoughts of which your heart is full. Feel drawn to love him, tell him so. All you have to do is to pour forth from your abundance and say what you feel.
But what are you to do in times of dryness, inner resistance and coldness? Do the same. Say equally what is in your heart. Tell God that you no longer feel any love for him, that all is a terrible blank to you, that he wearies you, that his presence does not even move you, that you long to leave him for the most trifling occupation, and that you will not feel happy till you have left him and can turn to thinking about yourself. Tell him all the evil you know about yourself.
So how can we even ask what there is to talk to God about? Alas, there is only too much!
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In either of these two states I have described, tell him without hesitation everything that comes into your head, with the simplicity and familarity of a little child sitting on its mother's knee.
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