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Julian (of Norwich) makes it clear that our prayer begins in God and returns to God. It is of God, about God , in God. All prayer is a response to God's prayer and desire for us. The tradition itself 'is a response to God's longing that we spend time with him, that we create space in our loves to be with him'. pp27

there are three capacities or faculties which we have under consideration - the thinking faculty, the feeling faculty, and te willing or acting faculty. These  practically cover all the ways in which self can react to other selves and other things... it is the whole person of intellect, of feeling, and of will which finds its only true objective in the Christian God. Evelyn Underhill Excerpts from the essentials of mysticism, devotional classics pp 113


The result of much personalprayer is usually seen in a change of expression from 'give me', to 'make me'. OUr deepest longings are for an ever increasing knowledge of teh divine plan for our lives. This is not achieved without much agony of teh spirit... Doris Rendell pp69



God's iniative , not our achievement
listening more than talking
receiving more than asking for
coming to rest in the direction of God
directing our hearts toward him and trusting him to do the rest. Silf