When I cannot read when I cannot think when I cannot even pray I can trust.

I had a dream about you. I was a ventriloquist trying to share your fashion secrets but you wouldnt talk. So we put on a strip show for the department store sale and I was arrested for theft I took away your dignity as a mannequin.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers but few agonizers many players and payers few pray-ers many singers few clingers lots of pastors few wrestlers many fears few tears much fashion little passion many interferers few intercessors many writers but few fighters. Failing here we fail everywhere.

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that if we were not we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

Love is the only prayer I know.

If my eyes have pain I close them If my body aches I rest it If my heart breaks I mend it If my soul is lost I pray for it

All days are nights to see till I see thee And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Catch your dreams before they slip awayDying all the timeLose your dreamsAnd you will lose your mind

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.