St Teresa compared prayer in a person’s life to watering a garden. Just as there are many methods of watering a garden, there were many forms of prayer. As a child she liked to pray the rosary, which she was taught by her mother. As a young person she found that vocal or saying prayers helped her to focus her attention on God.
She often found later in life that to begin reading a book helped her to focus her attention on God. She loved nature and she found that contemplation on any one of the beautiful things of nature helped her to focus on the power and the grandeur of God. She read the lives of the saints and had a particular devotion to Mary Magdalene, Martha and Mary, and Joseph.
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