DIAL HEAVEN

(new thoughts on different subjects are posted each Monday and Thursday)

Most everyone prays. Some more, some less but prayer is a need that nurtures our spiritual, emotional, mental and physical needs.. How often is enough? Well, consider this quote, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” (Corrie Ten Boom)

Would you have more meaningful prayers? Then become a spiritual linguist. In short, prayer is “a language of the heart” and the more fluent you become in this language the better you will understand your own attempts.

Prayer is not a grammar session. God certainly doesn’t care if you have a dangling participle. A good prayer does not necessarily have a proper beginning, middle and end. It can be brief and pointed, or as long as you need it to be. But when you pray, humility should be in your heart and your thoughts should be thoroughly focused; for if your prayers are not intense, why are you praying in the first place?

One thing is for sure, never bow your head with a stop watch in your hand.

If you say to me, “I try to pray, I really I do, but I just can’t concentrate on anything for very long, even God,” I would reply, “Don’t try to conquer a mountain until you have learned how to climb a hill.” Work on a moment, just one moment, before you extend to a minute, and when you have mastered that then try two minutes – you get the picture. To enlarge your capacity for things of the spirit you must learn to decrease the time you spend thinking on things less worthy of your thoughts.

What is so important about this business called praying? Well, God does not die when and if we put prayer on the back burner, but we do.