I showed great restraint in Emmanuel Christian Bookshop on Thursday; I didn't buy anything for myself! (You have no idea how hard that is!) I was looking through the prayer section, where there are always books without which my life is incomplete. I became aware that I bought a rather substantial book on prayer some weeks ago, which I haven't yet delved into; "Taste and See - adventuring into prayer" by Margaret Silf.
That book "appeared" on the floor at the foot of my bed this morning, peeping out from under some clothes.
I picked it up and opened it "at random".
The first sentence to leap towards me contained the phrase "ten feet down", in quotations, obviously referring to an earlier mention.
Riffling back through the pages (none of this consciously thought about) I came upon a section titled Ten Feet Down and read:
"A friend once told me an interesting fact that if you can imagine yourself in a stormy sea, and then imagine yourself ten feet below the trough of the highest wave, the water would be perfectly calm. The picture appealed to me, and helps me come to prayer.
Like most people, I live my life on the 'surface' of myself..."
That was enough to cause a lightbulb moment. I'm just noting this now so I can return to it later.
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