No Aching Back Required

Here’s a question for you to answer silently to yourself. You don’t have to tell anyone else your answer.   What do you do when you pray?   What do you, personally, do when you pray?   Now I‘m not really talking  about your posture, whether you’re kneeling or sitting and I’m not referring to whether your eyes are open or closed or whether you mutter or clamp your mouth tightly shut. People do different things.   Some people sway. Some people shout out loud- although they probably aren’t traditional Presbyterians. Some people look up toward the sky as if they can see God sitting there, Buddha-like on a golden throne at the top of some towering cumulus cloud.   Many of us pray as we were taught as children, head down and eyes closed, hands clasped before us. Is that the only way to pray?   All these body position issues are the things that people usually think about when they visualize themselves praying. I wonder why instead we don’t immediately think about the communication itself.