So many people have feelings of inadequacy or guilt around their own prayer lives. For a majority of these folks, the inadequacy is not from themselves but rather from the people who taught them about prayer.
If you believe that prayer is either formal words addressed to God or silence listening for God, your understanding of prayer is so small that it is difficult to keep up a full prayer life. But prayer, more fully understood, is simply time spent with God. That time might be spent gardening or running or talking with a friend or making dinner. Prayer includes inviting God into whatever is going on in your life, and noticing God in the midst of your day.
These days of early spring, God is so clearly present in the quality of light in the mornings. God is present in the buds and flowers beginning to burst forth. God is in the noises of spring--from robins to peepers to turkeys and bats. And it is my prayer, and God's joy, when I notice these things.
This morning creating was singing forth God's beauty and so I took the long way to work on my bike. I got in an hour of prayer before I even set foot in the chapel.
When we are aware, we are at prayer. Thanks be to God.
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