Simple Prayer

I don't know always where to start my prayers. There are times when I want to pray, but I don't know exactly how to begin. And when I just begin, sometimes I feel like I'm tripping over my words, not communicating clearly to God what I want to say. But the truth is, God understands, even when we stutter and stammer and speak using words and ideas that don't always go together to describe a feeling, a circumstance that seems to defy description. God simply gets it!

That's why simple prayer is so important. It is the prayer we start with, from where we are in faith, in life. It's as simple as, "God, here I am, here's my circumstance, here's how I feel. I don't know if it's right, but it's where I. Now let's move on from here." That's what God wants from us, brutal honesty. Even if it means that you say things like, "What have you done to me God?" or "Why me?" God's loves it when we are raw and spiritually naked. That's when we are the most vulnerable, not to hurt or destruction, but for molding and shaping. For healing, and for clothing in God's way.

Simple prayer is the most important prayer. If we wait until we have prayer figured out, the faith all understood, then we might miss the relational building blocks that this type of prayer offers. God is not waiting for a great prayer, but waiting for yours and mine, as simple as they may be.

So let's pray...

God, we don't know always how to pray or what to say when we do pray. We use words wrongly, we don't even know our own language well, but you understand our cries like a parent does a child. Thank you for listening to our heartfelt whimperings and selfish groanings. Listen to our circumstances, hear our needs, answer our prayers and give us faith to trust you to move the mountains from our path.

You are our God, we pledge to be your faithful people and hear our prayers.

Amen.

Now, don't you feel better?

Peace ><>
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