"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake.
--C. S. Lewis' Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer "
The whole of life is a prayer--often one sided. Regrettably, it is more often than not, one-sided. For God is always present and we are the ones who step away. I have often described prayer as simply a conversation between God and a person.
When you and I pray we take time in our day to say the things we need to say to God: To adore him, to say thank you, to make our appeals, to ask for our needs and wants. It takes place when we are mindful of God.
On the other hand God is everywhere at every time. All he has is time; he has time to spend conversing with each of us. He has already constructed the earth, the elements, he has given us oxygen to breathe all-the-while we conduct our daily busyness with projects, activities, and agendas. Though he is always mindful of us we are distracted from considering our Maker and Provider.
In the daily moments of our lives we need only be mindful of his omnipresence to return to the conversation and find he has been there all along. How much greater our society would be if we are conscious of his presence! If each of us considered him walking next to our self and next to our neighbors in the world we certainly would behave differently. How much more godly would our world be if we allowed ourselves to recognize that God is all around us...always.
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