What God Asks

Mother Teresa in a talk on prayer said that God speaks in the silence and poverty of the heart.
"If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you.
Then you will know that you are nothing.
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with himself."
. . . He asks our love and our willingness to be poor in spirit.
Then he will show us what we perhaps never expected to find in a state of need -- his immense love for us.

-- Father Donald Haggerty

Loving Father, make me poor in spirit

so that I can hear the voice of your Son

speaking in every circumstance of my life.