faber on prayer.

Here’s a poem on prayer. It was the first that i alighted upon in the book The Christian Book of Mystical Verse, compiled by Tozer. You should read it carefully, and with a comtemplative spirit and feeling of need. Listen to what Faber writes:
Ah dearest Lord, I cannot pray,
My fancy is not free;
Unmannerly distractions come,
And [...]