Some Thoughts About Prayer

Some thoughts about prayer.

The content of prayer is need, gratitude, and praise.

Help, thanksgiving, and doxology.

But the act of prayer is the finite reaching toward the Infinite,

created being seeking the Uncreated,

the temporal touching Eternity,

the mutable and transitory bridging to the Unchanging.

Contemplative prayer turns from content to act.

Ecstatic longing of the heart

desiring its Source and End.

Enstatic awareness of dependency,

attending to the Stability beneath fragility.

Respiration between intrinsic need and eccentric gift.