Prayer takes so many forms. Prayer can be a humble request for guidance, or it can be an exploration of profound truths of God and His creation. Sometimes it's an affirmation to oneself of God's allness and power, or maybe just a simple, inspired perception of God and of man, perfect in God's likeness. No two prayers—and the effects they have on us—are ever exactly alike.
Prayer often includes much listening and quiet seeking. Prayerful listening isn't so much a process as it is an attitude. It includes the calming of material hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell. Such prayer is the perception of spiritual ideas and truths through spiritual intuition and still, inner receptivity. It is listening from the standpoint of God's, divine Spirit's, allness; an openness to the purely good presence that knows only itself and its expression.
Prayerful listening isn't so much
a process as it is an attitude.
