This morning’s Daily Meditation from Silent Insight.org began with Jesus speaking, “You don’t have to be clever to please Me. Just speak to Me as you would to anyone who cares for you.” Jesus went on in the selection to invite us to share our fears, our failures, our joys, our temptations, our pride, our needs – in short whatever is on our mind.
I was reminded when I read it of a Mary Oliver poem I love, titled Praying:
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patcha few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorwayinto thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
It really is pretty simple, despite all our efforts to complicate it. Say what is on our hearts, and then give God a chance to respond.
Creo en Dios! 
Give God a chance to respond… Yes.
“the doorway into thanks”
That poem is printed, shining up at me as it has for several years, from under a clear desk mat. It is really pretty simple, although we persist in wanting to complicate it so often.