What is prayer?

What does it mean to pray? In a very basic way, because I think I'm a pretty basic person, I think it's just remembering the Creator in the conversation that is my life. I do believe that we are not lone entities existing in a pinball game. I believe all that exists is connected, and connected in that common Creator-energy. I do also 'believe' in science and the capacity of humanity to make bad choices, to be greedy and cruel.

So I'm thinking about prayer this morning because I read Dorothy Day writing about continuing to pray for the end of war (in this case World War II). I have to say that I probably think about prayer more than I consciously pray. Which is why my understanding of prayer as stated above has developed. In my life, prayer is action. If my awareness of and conversation with the Creator is not manifested in action that tries to make the world a place where it's easier to be good (as Peter Maurin would say), then it's empty dreaming and fantasy.