One day, Brother Bruno's night prayer was interrupted by the loud croaking of a giant frog. All his attempts to ignore these sounds were unsuccessful, so he shouted from the window: “Come on, be quiet! I need to pray."
Brother Bruno was a saint, and his request was carried out immediately. All living beings fell silent so that nothing would interfere with the prayer.
But then another sound was heard that prevented Bruno from praising God. The inner voice said:
“Perhaps God finds the croaking of this frog no less pleasant to hear than the singing of your psalms.”
“How can the croaking of a frog please the ears of the Lord?” - Bruno objected mockingly.
But the voice was not going to give up:
- Why do you think God invented sound?
Bruno decided to find out. He leaned out of the window and ordered: “Sing!” The air was filled with the uniform croaking of a frog to the crazy accompaniment of relatives from all nearby reservoirs. Bruno listened to the sounds, and the voices stopped annoying him; he discovered that if he did not resist them, they only enriched the silence of the night.
With this discovery, Bruno's heart felt one vibration with the entire Universe, and for the first time in his life he understood what true prayer meant.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru