The practice of prayer is primary for the pilgrim on the path. For prayer is soul energy turning to its life source for growth and power and communion. It is a gentle, spiritual movement that brings about a face-to-faceness of human soul with Divine Spirit. Prayer is soul energy yearning to express its great gratitude to God for being and yearning to declare its dependence on God. Prayer is soul energy burning — it is selfhood aflame — and seeking to unite with the Eternal Fire of Love.
Prayer is one-ing with God, a concrete expression of one's particular participation in the cosmic continuum. Prayer is a honing of awareness of our lost-ness. It is a homing which cancels our aimlessness and homelessness and removes us from ravages of restless refugeeism. Prayer is a true expression of who we are. We make ourselves what we are by the way we address God. Prayer thus becomes not only a remembering of what we have been, but also an awareness of what we now are and what we can be. It is a simultaneous integrating and re-structuring activity of the soul. Prayer is asking oneself to give an account of self in order to face life and confess who one really is.
Richard Batzler
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