My view: Most of what is called prayer is thanking God, telling God how wonderful He is (God is 'He' in most prayer), and telling God what we would like Him to do for us. Prayer for me has become time spent in awareness of God being the essence of all that is; to find and accept essence of me is also to find and accept God. "Prayer without ceasing" means to live always in and from that awareness. That understanding of prayer arose in me from discipline in learning and reflecting about God and from deep longing. Good actions lead into prayer and prayer leads into good action. Prayer that I grew up with applied a human standard and a very self serving standard to the divine; when I live prayer and the experience that I am attempting to describe here, it flips my old thinking and logic and applies a different standard to the divine.
On Apr 8, 2025 David Doane wrote :