" Come now, little man, put aside your business for a while, take refuge for a little from your tumultuous thoughts; cast off your cares, and let your burdensome distractions wait. Take some leisure for God; rest awhile in him. Enter into the chamber of your mind; put out everything except God and whatever helps you to seek him; close the door and seek him. Say now to God with all your heart: "I seek thy face O Lord, thy face I seek'."
The words are by Anselm and were important guidelines in the spirituality of Archbishop Michael Ramsey for whom theology and prayer were experiential synonyms.
They read like a distillation of the Christian tradition of contemplative prayer, the deliberate paying attention to God by withdrawing attention from self-concerned, self-centred, and self-referential activity of mind, emotion and body, being still to know that God is God, not us.
They appeal to me because they address me personally, "Come now, little man…… " 🙂
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