Having carried and birthed four children, waiting and expectation are opposites that I know I have experienced. So, too, the wedding vows spoken 50+ years ago: engagement and marriage are times of waiting and expectation.
To Pray is to Re-view
A beloved definition of contemplation, attributed to Walter Burghart, SJ, is: to take “a long, loving look at the Real.” To take a second, and all subsequent looks, then, might be considered prayer. To view again and again, to re-view, in the spirit of the loving gaze of contemplation, is to pray.
