This Is the Way I Pray

Prayer is sometimes like writing a letter to God. Before I write a letter, I imagine what I am going to say. The trouble is that I often think what I would like to write to folks or my friends or even to God, and then when I sit down to
write, all I can think of is the weather. Now, what about that letter to God?
We might say how we are feeling about life--
(This is just what I want to say to a friend).
We might bring to God our happiness in all that we are part of--
Food, shelter, warmth, care, love, responsibility.
We might tell how we are needed, for this is the great gift--
And we are needed because of the needs of others.
We might admit our puzzlement about life--
And very secretly, we would try to see what we have done wrong--
To think of going to those people and saying so--
We think it very secretly--but surely.
There are many things to write to God.