Will? What does my Morning Offering mean, but that the prayers, work and sufferings of the day are all offered to Him? I form then my _intention_ for the day, and as long as I do not deliberately take back that intention, it is there, even if I forget to renew it each morning. Now let me see how this works out in practice. I pay a Visit to our Lord, perhaps I am too tired to think about Him, I may even sleep in His presence; perhaps I am so busy that I find it impossible to keep away distracting thoughts; perhaps I am more taken up with the spiritual book I am reading than with Him--the time is up and I go, thinking, perhaps, what is the good of paying Him a Visit like that? There is great good even in that Visit which all the same might have been so much more perfect. What was my intention in paying it? Certainly to please Him. Then I _have_ pleased Him. It was a pleasure to Him to see me come in and sit with Him, even though I was occupied with my own concerns most of the time. We are too much taken up with asking _how_ we say our prayers, but the important question is _why_ do we say them. To go and sit in His presence, because He is lonely or because I am tired and I would rather sit with Him than with anyone else is _prayer_, even if I say nothing. What God is doing for me is of far more importance to my soul than what I am doing for God; and all the time that I am there, whether I am thinking of Him or not, He is impressing His image on my soul, and this is true, if I am in the state of grace, not only of my stated times of prayer, but of all the day long and the night too. What God wants in our prayers is simplicity. To help us to understand what simplicity is, let us think of a little child with its mother. The mother gives it something to play with or something to do. Is she very much concerned about _what_ the child is doing or _how_ it is doing it? Not at all, that is of no consequence; nothing it does can be of any real _service_ to the mother; but there is something that concerns her very much, and that is whether her child loves her, is happy to be with her, and wants to please her. We are only children and God is more tender than the tenderest mother. It makes very little difference to Him what we are doing while we are with Him or even how we do it (how can our little services make any difference to Him!); but whether or no we love Him, whether or no we care to be with Him, whether or no we want to please Him, these things make all the difference. _Colloquy_ with JESUS and Mary about prayer. _Resolution._ To try to live more in the spirit of prayer. _Spiritual Bouquet._ "Let nothing hinder thee from praying _always_" (Ecclus. XVIII. 22). THE INTERIOR LIFE. (6) ZEAL. "Behold I come that I should do Thy Will. O my God, I have desired it, and Thy law in the midst of my heart." (Ps. XXXIX. 8, 9). _1st. Prelude._ JESUS living in and working through Mary.