prayer; prayer is so nice, it helps me with everything

and in the part of me that catalogues and analyzes experience, I know that it's because prayer gives me time and ritual to contemplate God and his works in creation, and to be grateful for miracles big and small, of the sort that happen daily and the sort that happen once in a lifetime.

but in the quieter part of me, the part that's learning to just be and to accept, I do not like to think so much about the deeper mechanics of prayer--instead, let's just say in simpler, larger truths: prayer is nice, so nice, it helps me with everything