I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the spirit of god in our lives.
I find in the psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
