I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

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.

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

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

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

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.