Delia Smith

While there is still a widespread belief that there is some knack to prayer, some secret method that brings results, it is always going to be difficult to grasp that our role in prayer is profoundly passive.
“But when you pray” Jesus said, “go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place” (Matthew 6: 6). That secret place, where God “works” within me, is not just secret from the world, it is also in a sense secret from me. It is the deep centre of my being, where God’s activity is beyond my conscious perception.

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Full text available here. Originally published in 1993, currently out of print.