Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.