The Cupboard

 Sometimes I am like the cupboard that is full with back-up supplies, relying on myself to never run out.  A full cupboard prayer life fills me up with thoughts, images, written prayers, readings so that I never am empty or worse, bored.  I am fed by all my efforts.  But then I am never empty enough to the Divine Power that hides in emptiness.  Self-trust will never fill me up enough.  Meditation is to let go, to allow space, the emptying for the fullness to follow.