Simple Prayer

I get daily e-mails from L'Arche Canada with quotes from the writings of Jean Vanier, the founder of the world-wide L'Arche movement, consisting of communities where people with disabilities live in friendship with people without diagnosed disabilities. I found today's especially touching: "Many people in L'Arche are close to God, and yet they are so little and poor. They have known rejection and have suffered a great deal. I am always moved as I hear them speak of God. When somebody asked one of our men, Peter, if he liked to pray, he said that he did. So the person continued and asked him what he did when he prayed. He replied: “I listen.” Then the person asked what God says to him. Peter, a man with Down`s Syndrome, looked up and said: “He just says, 'You are my beloved son.' " - Jean Vanier, From Brokenness to Community, p.23