“Sometimes when praying, for I prayed much, there would come to me the sudden question, ‘To what are you praying?’ And I would answer aloud, ‘To God, to God!’ But though I prayed to Him everyday for years, only occasionally did I get a flash of that true consciousness of God. Finally one day when I was alone in the woods, there came the great revelation. It came not in any form of words, but rather in a wordless and formless wonder, too vast for the limitation of thought. ...Then gradually...I could put into the form of words the realization which had been too much for my mortality to bear, and the words I used to myself were, ‘All that is, is God.’ It seemed very simple, yet it was far from simple. ‘All that is, is God.’ That must include me and my fellow beings... From that moment life assumed a new meaning for me. I could not see a human face without remembering the revelation- that the human being I saw was a part of God. ...The realization nearly took my breath away. Life became unbelievably beautiful. ...[For] I found that as more and more I sought God in [others], more and more God responded to me through them. And life became still more wonderful. ...Sometimes I tried to tell others what I felt, but they did not always understand me. It was thus I began to realize that God had purposely, for some reason of his own, covered Himself with veils. Was it that He might have the pleasure of tearing them away?”
     Elsa Barker

Praying to God quotes, by Elsa Barker, quotes from THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas