We tend to use prayer as a last resort but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when theres nothing else we can do but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer however to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We dont want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of good time is seldom in sync with ours.

A strange thing words. Once theyre said its hard to imagine theyre untrue.

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that while solitude with dreams is glorious solitude without them has few charms.

I had a dream about you last night... you sat in a cardboard box and said you were a tree.

We must be careful what we imagine fear or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

Why must people kneel down to pray If I really wanted to pray Ill tell you what Id do. Id go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep deep woods and Id look up into the skyupupupinto that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then Id just feel a prayer.

...she fell into a long sleep and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination a world of aliveness There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it and we live in silence. It isnt that God stopped speaking it is that our lives became louder.

In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down and Im underneath. Im crawling sometimes for days under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world and every single thing was destroyed. But this isnt the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember the earthquake happened years ago. This pain this dying this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact I realize there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way broken and I am crazy for dreaming something else.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.