Praying is not about filling every silence

With someone you know intimately well, a single glance can communicate what an explanation would spoil. The article uses that experience to speak of contemplation: a moment arrives when there is no longer any need to keep producing sentences. The silence of prayer can feel uncomfortable because it seems as if you are doing nothing at all. Then you look for another reading, another petition, or an emotion to confirm that the time is working. Yet being truly present is also an act. Keeping silence before God does not mean forcibly emptying your mind. You can recognize a simple truth, look upon him, and allow your heart to grow quiet. Words will return whenever they are needed.