When you pray

[_zeezrom]

When you pray, are you as a little bird that hops and jumps in the arms of a giant angel?

Louis-Welden Hawkins “Una Oracion a Dios”

Do you pray while rubbing shoulders with your fellow cronies, whispering words of suspicious wonder?

Frank Cadogan Cowper - Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI

Do you sense God watching you from the corner of your bedroom, all dressed in her flight suit?

Katharine Hepburn

Do you pray as if God is not expecting you to even say a word? As if you didn't belong?

Detail from “The Uninvited Guest”, 1906 by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Do you pray to send angels to other parts of the world, to find the one you love?

Prospero and Ariel by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Do you pray without realizing it, just as the sun begins to set?


Or is it nothing but shock and awe when you pray, hmmm?

Carrie (1976)

Do you pray to the gods as they dance in the palm of your hand?

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, William Blake

Do you strive to catch the heart of God with the music of your prayer?

“The body to the soul”, Harper’s new monthly

Is your prayer a dance?

Edgar Degas L’etoile (detail)

Do you prayer reverently, like this little LDS girl in a sleeveless top?

http://www.lds.org/media-library/images ... ing-208793

How do you pray?

[_sock puppet]

Do you sense God watching you from the corner of your bedroom, all dressed in her flight suit?

Katharine Hepburn

Do you pray as if God is not expecting you to even say a word? As if you didn't belong?

Detail from “The Uninvited Guest”, 1906 by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Well, a young Kate Hepburn would be great to pray to (though Audrey Hepburn is much more the type of god I would pray to).

But I suppose that when my quiet contemplation might wander to a possible unseen being I'd like to be superior and stronger and smarter, I am the 'uninvited guest'.

[_Kittens_and_Jesus]

This came to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0-u85aAYg