Prayer

For years I have struggled with prayer. I start off great and then I get distracted and then recall that I was praying so I start back up again. So I began to write my prayers down in an effort to focus and sometimes I say them out loud. I always wondered why I could study the Bible and do Bible studies all day but prayer just seemed so much harder. I realize that it is because it is the essence of relationship. It requires intimate communication, complete vulnerability, and poverty of spirit. In "A Praying Life", Paul Miller reminds me that I don't need self discipline to pray continuously, I just need to be poor in spirit. I must realize how much I need Him and as much as I try to be an independent do it yourself type of girl- I am nothing without Him. "Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer"- P Miller. 

May we stop dulling our souls with the narcotic of activity and Abide with the One whose very breath is in our lungs.