Drawing Near

Prayer is not a ritual of the religiously inclined nor a mystical incantation for the desperate. It is, at its essence, the soul's conversation with its Creator. To pray is to come out of hiding and to step into the very presence of the One who made us and knows us fully. Christ did not teach His disciples how to preach, but how to pray. That alone ought to be a signal where our priorities must lie. For prayer is not merely a practice of faith, it is faith in practice.

True prayer does not begin with eloquence, nor does it require a feeling of nearness. It begins with God Himself, who invites, hears, and responds. When we pray, we do not climb upward toward a distant deity. We answer the quiet voice that has already drawn near. And in that nearness, our hearts are softened, our desires refined, and our souls shaped by the holy hush of divine communion.