Prayer: The Key to Union with God Who Is, Was, and Always Will Be Love

I have been struggling with the Ignatian Exercises. But, this week, I went back to an outline I had been given in my first exposure to the Exercises and I realized that considering the very first thing, the Creation, and my creation, in a way I had not heretofore done, was something of a jumpstart, hopefully one that will take hold. The first part of prayer, for me, for you maybe is the recognition of what it means the God is Love, that He loved me into being, that he loved you into being. Perhaps that's what it means to "pray without ceasing", because if you don't do that you cannot see beyond the distractions, the shadows of this world that was marred by sin.