Only God is perfectly capable of keeping God's commandments, as they require perfect love (recall that Jesus tells us in Matthew 22:37-40 that all Divine commandments are finally summed up in love of God and love of neighbor). The commands of God lay out a vision for an environment where God’s love can flourish, and our obligation to follow them is a prompting toward the realization of that vision, but the actual fruit of living aligned with God’s commands is not finally a matter of willpower, but of grace -- God acting in, through, and with us as the power of Love that provides the insight to fully understand the meaning of God’s commandments and to make them come alive. This is the grace that we make space for in our contemplative practice. Before truly living the commandments outwardly, the prayer practitioner will likely find God working the Divine commands interiorly first: fostering a deep reverence for God and neighbor, healing the lies we believe about ourselves in favor of the truth of Love and Mercy, a growing ease in detaching from things we once coveted, new discoveries of the fatherly (and sometimes motherly) love of God. As we continue to practice opening to the grace of God and letting God’s will be done in us, God’s commandments tend to become less rules that we follow, and more the natural movement of our graced hearts.