Prayer

Prayer

For me prayer is being in harmony with the universe. When I am in harmony with it my prayers are answered. My prayers are for guidance, wisdom and strength to deal with problems in life--not for specific outcomes. I believe those prayers are always answered, because the act of praying creates the state of mind that I seek. "Prayer doesn't change things: Prayer changes people, and people change things." My prayers are answered every day! The Good Lord allows me to wake up, breath, smell and see my surroundings, and hear all His marvelous sounds. My prayers are always answered, and the answer is always the same: Shanthi-peace.
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Psalm of Comfort
As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
so longs my soul for you, O God.

My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God;
when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long they say to me, "Where now is your God?"

I pour out my soul when I think on these things;
how I went with the multitude and led them into the house of God,

With the voice of praise and thanksgiving,
among those who keep holy-day.

Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?
and why are you so disquieted within me?

Put your trust in God;
for I will yet give thanks to him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

- Psalms 42: 1-7

Christian, appropriate for many faiths