Prayer

 

Daily prayer.... bang! That is never going to work. It starts great, goes a little further and then just slips away. I think it is the same with many like me. When there are problems, then things are different: I just am on my knees. Well, I wonder why I cannot have a systematic approach to prayer? I’ll try harder paths...  and see if no-ordinary paths to prayer really works.

I set three distinct alarms on my handset (the blessed cell phone) to ‘praying the hours’. My staff and the friends hear the phone ‘ring’ often. They ask me if someone is calling very often. No, they do not know that it is the alarm of the phone telling me of ‘praying the hours’.  

Praying the hours is the ultimate in my prayer relationship with God. If ‘Praying the hours’ cannot remind me of God during the day, I may not remember God at all rest of the time.

I wonder who developed ‘praying the hours’. The Jews?... of the early Christian church? The Bible tells us of ‘praying the hours’ even in the Old Testament. But God never makes a commandment out of it! Hai! Why should God do so? Those who think of God during the day, let them think so.... think so for their own very good.

Every time handset rings, I just have to tell myself that some moments be set apart for God. I have to speak to hear.... hear and tell my heart that God is very near to me. Feeling God’s presence in the very places we work or walk gives us an assurance that He is ever present around our little world.