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| (C. S. Lewis) |
“Don’t bother about the idea that God ‘has known for millions of years exactly what you are about to pray’. That isn’t what it’s like. God is hearing you
now, just as simply as a mother hears a child. The difference His timelessness makes is that this
now (which slips away from you even as you say the word
now) is for Him infinite. If you must think of His timelessness at all, don’t think of Him
having looked forward to this moment for millions of years: think that to Him you are always praying this prayer. But there’s really no need to bring it in. You have gone into the Temple (‘one day in Thy court is better than a thousand’) and found Him, as always, there. That is all you need to bother about.”
~C. S. Lewis (Collected Letters, August 1, 1949, To Miss Breckenridge)
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