Wilderness

 Prayer is like a wilderness.  Deep prayer is never the same place as before.  You may be in the same place, your favorite prayer space, but that is just your body which grows comfortable in its familiar setting.  The prayer of silence and stillness is not so much to comfort as to surprise, with its sudden arrival, or more so, your arrival in this new wilderness, never before experienced.  Oh, you think it is the same as some previous experience but it is not.  You are never the same and God does move about giving you new angles of the Divine.  If you fear the wilderness because it gives you no security and control, then fear will have to be dropped in your "letting go" practice.  Fear isolates.  The wilderness surprises with new and heretofore hidden treasures, buried deep within the soil of your soul.