Prayer

I think about prayer … what prayer is, what prayer means and how I should pray. Author Anne Lamott says her two best prayers are, “Help me, help me, help me!” and “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” She may be right and it would be hard to forget the words. My Dad believed that every prayer required some effort on the part of the person praying … that “thoughts and prayers” alone seldom come to much. He may be right, too. Page 856 of our BCP: “Prayer is responding to God, by thought and by deeds, with or without words.” Amen.