In a chapter titled “The Discipline of Meditation- Prayer” from James Earl Massey’s Spiritual Disciplines: A Believer’s Openings to the Grace of God, we learn that “the deepest meanings of selfhood are realized when a person is with God.  The self reaches its highest expression when one prays.  Realized order marks the path of an individual who walks and talks with God.  Each conscious moment spent with God in conversation and communion of prayer becomes a window on life as God intended it.”