Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.