Again

A life of prayer is rarely a straight line, a smooth upward progression. Our souls stretch out like our young bodies, in spurts and starts. There will be fruitful seasons of prayer, and times when we find it hard to pray at all.

We just keep starting over. Beginning again, and again, like the old benedictine motto: Rursus incipiemus nunc et semper: We begin again, now and always.

Always we begin again.

Today’s as fine a day to begin again as any other.