Wisdom

Prayer is spirit-to-Spirit communication with God; it goes beyond the thoughts of our minds, reaching into our very souls in ways we do not always understand or even comprehend how it occurs.  If we ask for wisdom, we will neither know that we have received it nor how it comes to us.  All we know is that something has happened to us that we ourselves did not cause to happen through study or contemplation. 

Wisdom arrives quietly, as a humble servant slipping in the back door of our hearts; she sets about her task before we even realize she is there.  We begin to see where she has been at work somehow after she has already rearranged and tidied up the disorder of our minds and emotions, when peace begins to reign instead of fear and turmoil, when the mind is at ease even in the midst of horrible events, when the Spirit of Jesus Himself says, "Peace, be still" in the midst of storms. 

Wisdom instructs her children all the days of their lives, bringing order out of chaos, just as she did at the beginning of time.  To pray is to invite wisdom as a guest in one's home and to be attentive to the aura of one's guest---never rude or insistent, but gentle and quietly resting in one's soul.