Another Favorite Prayer

I recently came across another prayer that I dearly love.  Many years ago it was a regular part of my devotional life, but it has fallen off since then.  I had transcribed into a book I bought for a friend and when I finally got around to sending that book--months after when it should have been sent--I saw it again and remembered just how meaningful it has been to me.

I offer it to you, not to replace our Chichester Prayer, but maybe as a warm up to it.  Think of it as a Pre-Prayer Prayer.  It was shared many years ago at a World Council of Churches gathering in Australia.  It is a wonderful centering prayer.  I hope you find it meaningful.

God
Grant me to be silent before you--
that I may hear you;
At rest in you--
that you may work in me;
Open to you--
that you may enter;
Empty before you--
that you may fill me.
Let me be still and know you are God.
Amen.
         Sir Paul Reeves