Whats prayer Its shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike if any whos to say Its reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes by Gods grace a prayer is heard.

He wished he was with his mom in her library where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way youd be able to find whatever you were looking for like the meaning of your dream or your dad.

Lord Jesus Christy whispered I want You to hold the key. I want You to decide what should happen in my hearts garden. I want You to let in or send out anything or anybody You want. Especially with guys. I dont want to ever unlock that gate again. I want you to open it only when the right man comes along. Take the key Lord. Take all my keys. Ill wait for you.

How they had dreamed together he and she... how they had planned and laughed and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.

I had a dream about you. You were crying and I couldnt tell if it was because you were sad or because youd been laughing too hard. So I decided to find out by telling you that Id just heard from the cops and your mother had been murdered. Before I got to the punch line you started sobbing in a different manner so I realized youd been laughing earlier. By that time the mood had changed and I decided it best not to deliver the punch line after all. So I sat down next to you and put my arm around you and tried to console you for your perceived loss.

The world cannot be translated It can only be dreamed of and touched.

If you can dream it you can do it.

AwakeShakeDreams from your hair My pretty child my sweet one.Choose the day and choose the sign of your dayThe days divinityFirst thing you see.

Praying demands that you take to the road again and again leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your fellow human. This is why praying demands poverty that is the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.