Dryness in Prayer Makes the Noblest Prayer

What would St. Francis de Sales say to someone who keeps getting discouraged in prayer because they feel nothing is happening?

Prayer is the foundation of the interior life. Everything else—reading scripture, meditation, even being truly present at mass—builds on it. Jesus prayed constantly, not because he was God, but because he was man. That’s how important prayer is.

One of the biggest struggles in prayer is that sense of “nothing is happening.” You sit down, you try to focu…