Not everyone will like what I have to say here, but that's OK. I'll say it anyway, and it might just resonate with some. Prayer can be a dicey subject; many times people would sooner talk about the intimate details of their sex lives than get involved in a conversation about prayer. For some people, that topic conjures up images of superstition and anti-intellectual, unscientific bias. For others, prayer evokes strongly-held (if not fanatical) convictions that easily translate to "It's my way or the highway." Yet, prayer is an essential element of conscious human life, whether or not we're prepared to acknowledge it. You can't stay on your life's track without it. Yes, I know that's a radical (and, perhaps, unscientific) statement, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Besides having an aversion to prayer, people also bring to the idea a great deal of personal baggage and misconceptions. As a man who has struggled with prayer for almost sixty years, I can attest to the fact that prayer itself, in addition to the concept of prayer, evolves over time. If your understanding and experience of prayer rests unchanged since elementary school, then it's no wonder you might be having difficulty with it. The one thing that I can categorically say about prayer is that it has nothing whatever to do with telling God how to run the universe. What prayer is and why it's important will take a little explaining.


















Want A Meaningful Life? Get a Balanced One!
In my experience, many people think of creating a balanced life only in theoretical terms: "It's a great theory, but id doesn't solve any of my practical problems." That's often followed by, "I ought to do something about that when I'm not so busy." Of course, those "I'll have to do something about that when . . . " statements are all really just blowing smoke. You know that you can make time for anything that's really important to you. 'Balance' just isn't one of those things, now, is it? Most people can't make the connection between living an imbalanced life and those sad, quiet moments when it strikes them that they're running around in mad circles, going nowhere, and feeling very lost and empty. Do those moments ever creep into your consciousness, when you stop long enough to allow yourself to feel?
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