A Second Whack at Prayer

I've been thinking more about prayer since I wrote about it last ("Where two are gathered in My Name", 2011/Dec/22), largely because our church has really been zeroing in on prayer as a church.

My approach to prayer is not lax, really, but it's hard to identify. I see living life with God in mind as a sort of prayer on its own; explicit prayer is not something I really do all that often.

At least, not normally; I find that I, like so many others, pray explicitly when I, well, in the words of one of my pastors, want to "get stuff."

Not exactly divinely inspired

Sometimes picking out something to write about is hard. It's not necessarily that there's nothing to write about - sometimes there's quite a lot. But sometimes you're just not inspired.

Or, at least, I am not inspired.

I find that the best way to kill off the drive I have to write about something is to talk about it before I write a draft. I don't know why; it's just a mental thing for me, I think.

I wish it wasn't this way, because I think topics would benefit from the refinement, from a sort of crowdsourcing.

The thought that started this topic was Philippians 4:8: