PHENOMENOLOGY OF PRAYER #1

I am not one to connect much with  prayer. I haven't explored my religious path since I was in the 7th grade, and it took me a long time to come to my sense and realize that I could openly admit that. Often I was the person who treated prayer like a vending machine, I wanted to submit my request and then receive an answer. I did it all the time. Then I came to realize that was not how it worked. That was not how anything in life really worked. As I read I learned that prayer is "in the beauty of God and rejoicing that He has such beauty" (pg. 14). It is not the coin that makes the prayer be heard, the beauty that God posses and his ability to show that each and every day is the quiet answer I never saw before. Throughout the class we have been talking about projects in the long term for the most part. When I look through the lens of prayer, I look at my projects I take on each new day. Due to the fact that He posses so much beauty, the over stress and worldly pressures are celebrated instead of overpowering. So the understanding of prayer is taking a slightly different shape for me, it comes through my words, but it forms in His beauty, and that is a powerful change for me on an individual level between Him and I.