You can praise God with your words. You can place yourself there. Because what does it mean to praise God? God who is beyond our understanding, beyond knowing. We can praise that God — the God who says, "I want to be known by you," and still remains unknowable in some very fundamental way. What does it really mean to say, "I'm praising God"? Choose words. Choose better words, different words. It's a way of bringing yourself into a space of awe and gratitude. Praise be to God. It's like — I'm in awe of the fact that I'm alive at all. That this miracle we call life is happening, and that we get to have an understanding, a consciousness of this — it's an amazing, ultimate fact. The Zen Buddhist teacher Suzuki, who wrote the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind — many of you are familiar with it — said the fact that you are here right now is the u ...