Prayer

To live without prayer is to live without God, to live without a soul. No one is able to think of Him unless he ahs learned how to pray to Him. For this is the way man learns to think of the true God - of the God of Israel. He first is aware of His presence long before he thinks of His essence. And to pray is to sense his presence.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

This quote reminds me of a talk one of my heroes once gave. She reminded us that prayer must be 'on the run' - not closeted and squeeze lifeless into 'times' and 'moments'. but we pray on the run, always aware of the one who goes before us, the one who is reigning and the one who knows us. "Don't spend time telling him who fantastic he is, he already knows!' Prayer is for me the practice orientating yourself to the father of Jesus. It reminds of a small child being carried in one of those marsupial contraptions that straps the baby to the chest. The baby can look from side to side, and dribble and cry and fight, but always is kept close to the chest.

Prayer is like that. Close enough to feel every heart flutter and temor. Close enough to sense every emotion and whisper. and, i suspect, that god has the ultimate go-go gadget arms to absorb our failing and kicking.