PRAYING

I don’t like to pray; besides…I’m not any good at that. And it takes up to much of my time. I’ve got other stuff to worry about. What am I going to do at work today? Where am I going to do lunch? I wonder how I can get out of mowing the grass. What’s on TV tonight? Should I order that “Girls Gone Wild” tape? I just don’t have time to pray and I can’t multi task with my one track mind.

But…I know I need to pray.

When I am not praying I find my imagination wondering the dark halls of iniquity and vice.

I need to pray unceasingly. According to St. Paul in his 1st letter to the Thessalonians (5:17) he said “pray without ceasing”.

If I fill my head with prayer there is no room for that other stuff.


Thank you, Lord Jesus, for my one track mind.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for Paul’s challenge.
Please, Lord Jesus, help me to “pray without ceasing”.

Amen.

10/14/2007