Knowing God

Prayer is coming face-to-face with the living God, knowing Him even as He knows us.  In friendship, each friend enters into the other's life, partaking therein of the other's realitites--their family, their relationships, their activities, and their interests.  So too in our friendship with God.  He shows us His life, His interests, His family, His relationships---and He wants to know ours. 

In prayer, it is not necessary that we "say" anything at all, but only that we enter into the heart and mind of God, walking with Him in companionship and openness.