September 22, 2026
Prayer’s many seasons have their unique personalities, each with a Truth and Presence awaiting revelation. These seasons rest not within the pages of a calendar but, like the earth’s axis, in the slow leaning of our hearts toward the Incandescent Face of God.
The soul’s Spring prayer is full of words and the longing to know more of the One Whom we desire. It is offered in the rising light of faith. It is surprised, delighted by response. It blossoms in the delicate pastels of self-revelation.
Summer prayer has a settled cadence. It welcomes warmth, the Spirit’s Fire vivifying a Presence beyond words. It lingers in the Light that intensely teaches Love. It bears Love’s fruit wherever it dwells. It comes whenever the soul finds its summer.
Autumn prayer presses its infinite roots deep into time-tested faith. Like a fecund tree, this prayer unfolds each leaf before Love and awaits Love’s reception. Having come to wisdom, it yields appropriated fruit to the One Who seeded and sustained it. Autumn prayer is a slow falling from consuming color into the radical trust that invites winter prayer.
Winter prayer resides in silence, in the still confidence of reciprocated self-donation. It has become peace, a requiescat of fidelity.
Music: Autumn Longing – George Winston
Suggested Scripture: James 5:7-8
For Your Reflection:
- What feelings or reactions do I have after reading this reflection?
- Do my feelings or reactions remind me of any passage or event in scripture, especially in the life of Christ?
- What actions might I take today because of my response to these readings?
Song for Autumn – Mary Oliver