"Prayer is the bridge between our conscious and unconscious lives.
Often there is a large abyss between our thoughts, words, and actions, and the many images that emerge in our daydreams and night dreams.To pray is to connect these two sides of our lives by going to the place where God dwells.
Prayer is “soul work” because our souls are those sacred centers where all is one and where God is with us in the most intimate way.
Thus, we must pray without ceasing so that we can become truly whole and holy."
By Henri Nouwen
How does one pray without ceasing? Is it a request, a sigh of relief, a cry for help, an expression of thank you dear God, a petition for a friend; a loved one, an ask for what we want or think we need, a longing, an awareness…
Is prayer a growing into our skin moment by moment, a little spark of healing, twinkles of insight, shedding what's no longer helpful, giving up the struggles, endless strategies and trusting…
Is prayer opening to receive and give, listening with your heart, pausing to understand, is prayer a question or an answer?
Each morning, is it living the question, "Where will you have me go, to whom will you have me speak and what will you have me say?" (A Course In Miracles)
Is prayer a willingness to see differently… oh, but God please help me, a willingness to let go of judgement and control, forgiving the person who confronts and frustrates you/me and ultimately learning to forgive ourselves.
Is prayer is sharing our unique gift with this world, the one that is only ours to give? Is prayer is a sweet offering to Love?
Prayer is never ceasing.
Liz Sorensen Wessel
Bridge photo, San Diego CA by ~liz
Journal of Sacred Work 
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