Something Beautiful

What is prayer?

A question rather often on my mind these days is: What is prayer? (and what is it good for?)  Mahatma Gandhi offers this: 

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Okay, but I think that prayer can certainly also be asking. Much of prayer in fact is probably asking, and I suspect that is perfectly fine.

Missing comments

This blog recently underwent an intense and prolonged attack by spammers.  When, after some days, it had still not died down, I felt obliged to take steps to make it more difficult to post comments.  In the course of doing that, I somehow inadvertently deleted comments from actual and valued contributors.  I very much regret that this happened, and apologize for the mishap.