Pondering Life

Today I am pondering Life and prayer.   I am still alive and feel pretty well except for a few things that I do not do anymore or cannot do the way I would like.  (Not speaking here of physical weakness or some abdominal pain that comes and goes(?)       I do not sing anymore.  I haven't felt like trying at all.  Since singing is like a sport, and I was very well trained and "in shape" to do it for so long in part of my life, I know that the drive is no longer there.  I don't have the stamina or the will, sad to say.  But then at 77, maybe that is a good thing:):)       Another thing that I feel I am lacking sometimes is praying.  What do we pray for?  So many facebook "peeps" say they are praying, or the prayer icon comes up, or similar ideas about praying.  I know I do not pray the way I should or want.  I know it cannot be a trite thing when it comes out of my mouth or mind.  "I am praying for you", or, "please pray for me", or, "they need our prayers".   All of these phrases have deep connotations when it comes to actually putting it into  practice and  commitment.          But, here is what I find to really open my mind and heart to what "praying" is and should be, written by CS Lewis.  I have been searching for a way and meaning for me in prayer.  Concentration now for me is hard and challenging.  My brain is probably so "chemoed up", I dare say concentration and lack of memory influences praying, and that is a lame excuse. So, here is what good old CS Lewis says on the subject and I appreciate this:

"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer, in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. In it God shows Himself to us. From The World's Last Night Compiled in A Mind Awake"