Chapter 20: The ideal of true reverence in prayer

When we come, then, with our requests in prayer before the Lord, who is God of all creation, is it not all the more important that we should approach him in a spirit of real humility and a devotion that is open to him alone and free from distracting thoughts? (From Ch. 20 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Meditation teaches me that my "requests in prayer before the Lord" might simply be a turning towards God, without a need to make anything happen, but to discover grace in what is. And then, to go forward from there, without fear.