"A Person of Prayer" from Joan Chittister, from Essential Writings

..."When, in prayer, we come to discover God’s universal love we suddenly realize  that God does not take sides, that we have no priority on God alone.  We finally understand that the God we seek is the God of the world and so, to seek that  God, we must develop hearts as big as the world ourselves.. To develop a cosmic heart is a moment of profound transformation.  We can never be the same again.  We are beyond the boundaries we have created to separate the human race  into my race and theirs...." –from Joan Chittister: Essential Writings, selected by Mary Lou Kownacki  and Mary Hembrow Snyder