How do you imagine God? Where is this God that you imagine?
Someone said they were puzzled by how they could send a prayer all the way up to heaven and it could make it to God.
I understand. Many people imagine God as sitting in an ornate chair up in the sky somewhere.
Jesus said that the kingdom of God is all around us. Paul tried to describe it as our bodies are temples, that is the residence of God in the language of the day, of the Holy Spirit, that is the way we experience God after Jesus’s resurrection.
We could just as easily imagine prayer as a conversation with someone right here beside us. Someone I read many years ago described gatherings of the first followers of Jesus as experiencing him right there in the room with them. More than a belief—an experience.
A good and refreshing conversation includes me talking, me listening, pauses, nodding our heads in agreement, lifting eyebrows in surprise, maybe a smile or a tear.
I once offered to teach a prayer class. It should be a limited term class. Six weeks. Experiencing various types and methods of prayer developed over millennia. People came expecting me to teach about prayer, you know, six examples from the Bible to memorize or something. I wanted to show them, actually have them experience, different forms of prayer much like teaching different poses in a Yoga class or how to use dumbbells when doing resistance training where you actually must perform the action taught.
How about you? Do you just want an intellectual knowledge about God and conversations with God? Or perhaps a deeper experience of relationship?
Sometimes we are way too much into head and way too little into heart (soul).
Faith Venture 
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