Prayer

C.S. Lewis once said that the prayer preceding all prayers is "May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to." In the following poem, he gives a shining look into what that conversation looks like. It is simply titled, "Prayer."

Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it's all a dream
—One talker aping two.

They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say,
And lo! The wells are dry.

Then, seeing my empty, you forsake
The Listener's role, and through
My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.

And thus you neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem
Two talking, thou are One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.

Slice of Infinity- Jill Carattini

Ha. C.S. Lewis says that in conversation with God, one is not dreaming of a reply from God; he is the dream and God is the dreamer dreaming him...ha..something to think about