From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Tuesday, November 4, 1997 11:17 PM
To: 	 Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: What is prayer?

From:          Stan Grams 
To:            "heb_roots_chr@geocities.com" <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject:       What is prayer?

Someone recently asked the question, "What is prayer?"

I was reminded of something I came across while on a sales call many
years ago.. It was orange with age calligraphy in a dusty old frame
hanging on the wall in a cluttered, small office in a "used merchandise"
shop. I bought it for a dollar. To me it is worth much more. Here it is:

"For a prayer need not be a rhetorical address or an itemized petition,
or lips moved soundlessly inside a cathedral, or even words spoken into
the air. A prayer may be a wordless inner longing, a sudden outpouring
of love a yearning within the soul to be for a moment united within the
infinite and the good, a humbleness that needs no abasement or speech to
express it, a cry in the darkness for help when all seems lost, a song,
a poem, a kind deed, a reaching for beauty, or the strong, quiet inner
reaffirmation of faith.

A prayer in fact can be anything that is created by God that turns to
God.

Paul Gallico quoted from Ludmila, a legend of Liechtenstein."

Stan

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