Prayer is not a stand-alone. Like love, "pray" is a verb. An action word. Prayer is the prelude to doing something. Prayer, well-conceived, leads us to go on God's errands. In God's economy, prayer is the means to an end. And we don't always know the end.

Our good frien...

I once saw God,

As through a window in my soul I peered.

He was just as I suspected, Just as I feared.

So selfish and cruel He appeared to be;

So very ugly, So unlike me.

Then looked I deeper, Still deeper with time;

T’was a mirror all along,

And the image was mine.

I now see...