By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

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 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.

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

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

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

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