Light On Dark Water

If we want to keep company with God, we must be prepared to let him remind us of his ways, not at the times that suit us, but at the times that suit him. If, through our use of the Bible, through our reading and meditation, we let him into our hearts, below the level of our deliberation, that means that we hand over to him the right to choose how and when to present himself to our consciousness. We all like keeping God in a cupboard with the best china and family silver, to look at when we feel inclined. But the living God chooses his own times, and will come when he is not wanted.

–Fr. Simon Tugwell, O.P. (from Prayer: Living With God, quoted in Magnificat)