Confident in Christ’s presence

The only thing we have to remember is that there are many dimensions to this experience of Christ, many forms of prayer. In some of them, we are using our thoughts and images – in sacraments, in scripture, in mental prayer – and those are important to nourish our Christian understanding, Christian faith. But there is also as the Christian tradition teaches this level of prayer of the heart, where we are so confident in Christ’s presence that we can let go of our images of him or thoughts about him and enter into a more direct and personal relationship with him.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB