LC of PC saw it first

But this is really good on prayer and Benedictine spirituality.

Benedict began his Rule with the verb "listen!" In so doing, he defined, as many have written in commenting on the Rule before, the definitive inner posture of the Western contemplative tradition. Listening to God, in liturgy and in life, is what prayer means to St. Benedict. As Mary said yes to God, prayer is our way of saying yes to God, every day, with all of our everyday waking lives.
How fitting that the responsorial Psalm for this coming Sunday is not a Psalm at all, but the Magnificat, the canticle of Mary, her praise filled "yes" to God at the angelic announcement of her role in the story of the ages. This is of course, the same prayer that is prayed each night at Vespers in the prayer of the Church (Liturgy of the Hours). Each day, a praise filled "yes" to God.......

Prayer is not a desperate attempt to get God's attention. Prayer is a quiet discipline of allowing God to claim our attention. This can happen in ordinary things, a talk with a friend, listening to a beautiful piece of music, watching a woodpecker on an Oak tree in winter.....

It's been said before, and you know you've heard it before, but the hardest part of prayer is not finding the words, but shutting the heck up.