He and I is a wonderful book, recommended to me by a great and holy priest as a way to learn how to pray, and to use to spur on prayer.
I’ve read it like 7 times…I read a small bit every day to launch my mental prayer.
Wonderful.
It’s a prayer journal…private reflections and inspirations. The person who wrote the forward to the book years later I think has some of her own ideas…but the journal entries are rock solid.
A sampling:
“You hear these little goldfinches chatting in undertones without ever stopping?..Talk to Me like that, ceaselessly, sottovoce.”
“Sometimes you feel Me more or less, but I never change. Don’t let praying tire you. Why do you give yourself so much trouble? Let it be utterly simple and heart warming, a family chat.”
“I transform your prayers into My prayers, but if you don’t pray…”
Gabrielle asks: “Is it love when my heart beats more quickly when I think of you?” The voice responds: “Yes it is love. But it’s also love when you make an effort to be good for My sake without the slightest pleasurable feeling.”
After a shower of rain. The Voice says: “You see all these tiny pools of water mirroring the sky? Look thoughtfully and tranquilly at God. He alone is worthy of your contemplation. See Him, and you will reflect Him.”
“May the invisible be more present to you than the visible.”
I was thinking of my weaknesses. “The smaller and weaker a child is, the more closely one holds it to one’s heart.”
“Offer yourself to Me just as you are. Don’t wait to be pleased with yourself. Be one with Me in your greatest shortcomings. I take them and restore you if you put your trust in Me. Have confidence. Who loves you the most?”
“Who is your God, you or I? Then why don’t you think of Me more than of yourself?”
On suffering: “If I had another way of bringing you closer to Me than suffering. I would choose it.”
“Will you let me live again on earth in you?"
