Over thirty years ago, a priest friend, Jim Bacik, offered to be my spiritual director for a week-long retreat on prayer. I agreed to spend an hour or so daily in prayer, or at least something that seemed like prayer, and to meet with him every day to discuss what I was experiencing. He loaned me a book on prayer that he thought would give me some new ideas on the topic. I remember recounting to him in one of our daily meetings that I had done some reading from the book and had found it exciting, but when I returned to the book to use it during my designated prayer time, the inspiration I’d felt earlier seemed to have vanished like smoke. Jim laughed and said, “Kevin, the prayer happened the
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