Prayer, Jesus says also, we should be in the present moment. Not just thinking about this afternoon or tomorrow morning, or anticipating or fantasising what’s going to happen next, but to be in the present moment. And all of these elements of prayer as Jesus describes them to us are really the elements of the prayer of the heart, contem-plative prayer, what we call meditation, Christian meditation. Of course this doesn’t mean meditation is the only way of prayer. Of course not. There’s only one prayer, and it’s not one method or technique. There’s only one prayer, and that’s the prayer of Jesus himself in the holiness of the Spirit, of the Holy Spirit praying in us. St Paul says this very clearly, ‘we do not know how to pray’, but the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the spirit of holiness, prays in us ‘deeper than words’ (Rom 8:26). And so our prayer is about entering into that holiness of Christ within us
( Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 2, Laurence Freeman )
