To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying.
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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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To ask the hard question is simple.
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