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

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

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

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

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

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

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.