In my youth I would wonder how someone could pray multiple hours a day or "without ceasing" because I thought prayer was talking to God. I think contemplative prayer answers that question. As I have been reading my spiritual guides over the past two years, I have been learning to understand prayer as so much broader than what is typically assumed. Richard Rohr tells of a prayer learned from a Jewish rabbi that involves simply breathing in yah and out weh. Breathing God in and out. Listening for God, experiencing God in each moment. What a riveting concept and a practical way to abide in Christ and let Him abide in me. God is as necessary to me as breathing air. He is as present as the air I breathe.