Prayer and presence
Lesley Morris writes about her inner silence and the meaning of God
I often moan to myself that Friends don’t talk enough, for me, that is, about what we feel God to be – how we experience it/him/her; but I also know I don’t talk about it much either. I’m quite gregarious, certainly capable of opening the conversation, but… it is a tender, sensitive topic; because it is so subjective, so experiential, it defies ordinary language and we cannot all be poetic. It demands that we go ‘inside’ ourselves, and that is not a comfortable place from which to have an articulate, clear, ‘outside’ conversation.
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