Our Lord is so glad and merry with our prayer; and he looks out for them and longs to receive it, for with his grace he makes us like himself in condition as we are by nature. And this is his blissful will. Therefore he says this: ‘Pray inwardly even though you imagine it does not help you; for it is profitable, though you do not feel it and see nothing; yes, even though you think you can do nothing. For in dryness and in barrenness, in sickness and in feebleness, then is your prayer especially pleasant to me, though you imagine it helps you but little. And it is the same with all your
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