Prayer without action Isn't worth much.

April 8

Prayer without action
Isn't worth much.

But action without prayer
Is even worse.

The first is often a way
To soothe our troubled conscience,
While the second is a way to
Satisfy our unexamined desires.

The world has a surfeit of action.
People everywhere are scrambling to
Do the right thing.

But so few ask
What the right thing to do
Really is.

And that's where prayer comes in.
Prayer is not begging some
Old man in the sky
To grant all your wishes.

Prayer is opening up
To something greater
Than ourselves,
And being willing to listen.

If we're going to make
It through all this,
I think we all need to pray more.