Regardless of how you treat the street, prayer occurs when you're driving.
Driving is an interactive process. If we pray with entirely self-centered
and self-contained thoughts we're really just parked alongside the road.
Whatever words we may be forming are just an internal monolouge if they're
not oriented toward another. The 'other' could simply be a mirror or shadow image of
one's own inner self but it's still a projection of one's thoughts, feelings and intents
toward an 'other'. Considering only one's own perspective is the one-way street.
Consideration and concern for other persons puts us on a two-way street. Engaging the
vertical dimension bridges the natural and supernatural making it a three-way street.
Of course, driving is a modern phenomenon. Today we drive at high speeds in environmentally
controled, isolating metal shells on smooth pavement and reasonably graded roadways. Nowadays
we're not interested in the journey as much as we are in arriving at our destination. Back when
we were walking or maybe riding a horse - collisions and traffic jams weren't really a concern.
Back then people were journeying rather than driving. You could not not be engaged with
the terrain, other journeyers the natural environment, and the forces of nature. I'm not saying
that everyone was praying, but the act and context of journeying was certainly more conducive
to prayer than the intent behind and isolating containers of driving. So . . . if we can say that
a journey of interactive engagement feeding back on itself while also extending itself to others is prayer . . .
. . . that's just a long winded way of saying that Perichoresis is Prayer.