The purpose of prayer is to bring Heaven and earth together. It gives inner peace in ways that neither intellectual understanding, credentials, money, sex, drugs, houses, clothes, nor any other gifts of the world can do. We can learn to speak to God as we would speak to a combination therapist/lover/teacher/best friend/One-we-trust-more-than-anything/One-who-loves-us-no-matter-what/One-with-all-the-power-to-real/One-with-the-power-and-desire-to-help, for that’s what God is. Prayer work is a constant and consistent conversation with Him. God listens, and He answers. His answer is always peace. Prayer gives us access to a sweeter, more abundant life. The intellect gives many things, but ultimately it cannot give comfort. No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
Pearls of the Spirit 