Variety: Revelation 8v1

There was silence in heaven for about half an hour. (Rev 8:1)

Father Richard Rohr describes prayer as a practice of being present before the mystery of God.  

I believe that immediate, unmediated contact with the moment is the clearest path to divine union. Naked, undefended, and nondual presence has the best chance of encountering the Real Presence.

Prayer is the way to make contact with God, but it is not an attempt to change God’s mind about us or about events. It’s primarily about changing our mind so that things like infinity, mystery, and forgiveness can resound within us.

Jean-Pierre de Caussade “If we have abandoned ourselves [to God], there is only one rule for us: the duty of the present moment.”  To live in the present is finally what we mean by presence itself! God is hidden in plain sight, yet religion seems determined to make it more complicated.