YOU DON'T PRAY | Some years ago, while staying in my school dorm, I heard a roommate praying loudly in tongues. A thought crossed my mind, "Subomi, I'm not sure you pray enough." Then just as quickly, I thought, "You actually do."

You see, at that very moment, I was reading my Bible with a cup of steaming coffee by my side. It's something I do daily - Caffeine and the Word. I read the Bible everyday and as I do, I meditate deeply and talk to God about what's "doing me".

Sometimes, I have an agenda and go through each item like a checklist. God simply reminded me that this was prayer and it generated incredible power. I'd been so programmed by religious formats that my first thought was that prayer was loud "skabashing" and worship music.

God seems like a Kaleidoscope. You turn it and see purple patterns. Someone else turns it and sees green. Another, yellow. Perhaps that's what it means for God to be omnipresent. Different expressions, unique experiences.

An Englishman converses with him in English at the same time a Nigerian prays in Yoruba and a Chinese man speaks in Mandarin. Everyone has a different timeline with God. There's a beginning, middle and end. Sometimes a person's timeline doesn't intersect with another's.

We are like blind men feeling the Elephant. One touches the trunk & pities the one touching the Ear, assuming he doesn't really know the Elephant. In the same way, we all think we know God; that we have a complete picture of him. So we look down on those who see something else.