As someone who has only recently been able to let go of a lifetime of superstition and finally found a direction that I believe is leading me into the light, I'm working on finding a new way to pray and commune with the Universe.  If you would care to, please share with me a little about your personal belief system, and how you pray.  Thanks so much for sharing!!!

Good question, Girlfriend.  

I pray in many forms, many of which are probably shared by other people.  In fact, I would say that most of my spell work and rituals are just an organized form of prayer.  Of course, I do the regular prayers where you are simply speaking from your heart to the Divine at any given time, as afterall, "every thought is a prayer."  Sometimes I will speak aloud, and sometimes I will not.  I find that speaking things aloud has a certain power I can sense, and to be honest, sometimes the feel of it is simply to overwhelming for me to feel comfortable.  My prayers are not always communicated in words, but many times in emotion.  I find my most powerful prayers and spells occur when I can articulate the emotions into words and channel the energy into a spell.  Sometimes my prayers are actions.  For example, if I purchase a container of hyacinth or tullips, instead of throwing the bulds away when the plant dies, I will bury them in a park for others to enjoy in the coming years.  This is a prayer thanking the Divine for the beauty and pleasure the plant brought into my life.  

Essentially, I would consider my spell work a form of organized prayer.  I find that ritualism helps me concentrate on the intent of the prayer.  I am not necessarily asking for something each time I perform a spell; sometimes it is simply a ritual of thanks.  I have always found lighting a candle and burning incense to be a potent means to organize my thoughts.  

I once attended a lecture given by a Tibetan Buddhist Lama who said something I will never forget.  She said, in BUddhism, "when one prays to the figure of the Buddah, they are praying to the Buddah within them."  I suppose that the ultimate goal on my spiritual Path is to truly appreciate and understand this quote.

Hey girlfriend, I think Stacey said it all, I pray ALL the time, when i see beautiful things in nature i give thanks I even have a little prayer book"The Wiccan Prayer Book" by Mark Ventimiglia  when i 1st started on this path it felt like a little structure and although i still use it , structure is one thing i don't miss...I think i pray more now than i ever did, and like stacey said not always in ritual form....sometimes just thoughts...i hope this makes sense, Love and Light, Lavendar-Ice

I pray from the heart, spontaneously, with spoken word, thoughts, emotions or actions.  I pray as a beloved child of the Divine, truthfully, awkwardly sometimes, without contrivance (as in all that "I am not worthy, grant this sinner...., Oh Most Holy......)  There is a scene in the Monty Python's "Search for the Holy Grail" where God appears and gives King Arthur his opinion on all that "averting our eyes and we are not worthy" stuff.  It's hilarious and right on target as far as I am concerned!   And PS...Stacey, your reply was eloquent and beautiful.  Good luck and many blessings on your new path, Girlfriend.