Beginning Armchair Mystic

My sister began her vacation two weeks ago by unceremoniously dumping five books on my lap. They are all books dealing with contemplative prayer and modern Christian mystics. I began
Armchair Mystic: Easing into Contemplative Prayer last night. The foreword has this Thomas Merton quote:

"Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment."

I like the idea that we can be and indeed are completed by communication with God. I look forward to reading all five of these books and will post reviews of them all.