Prayer - The Disturbed Prayer of The Saint

Saint Bruno felt disturbed that night while praying. The toads, crickets, cicadas, and almost every sound of nature seemed to unite to ruin his prayer and all his efforts to ignore those sounds yielded nothing. So, he walked to the window and cried "Be quiet! I am praying."

Being a saint, his order was obeyed and all living things resisted to make any sound creating silence that is favorable for praying.

But now another noise disturbed the saint's prayer, an inner voice saying "Perhaps God is as happy with those noise as with prayers" "What's good about those sounds in nature for God anyway?" the saint taunted. But the voice persisted, "Why do you think God created voice?"

Bruno wanted to find the reason, so he walked again to the window and cried "Sing!" The toad, cricekets, and all living things started to raised all their voices filling the space. And when Bruno listened attentivelly the sounds were not thatdisturbing anymore. He realised that when he stop rejecting the sounds,it in fact, fulfilled the silence of the night.

Through his realisation, he was enlightened and became balanced with nature. For the first time in his life he understood the meaning of praying.