Learning to pray is like learning to play a musical instrument. A beginning student spends countless hours with an instructor in a tiny closet playing scales and rudimentary musical scores. What begins as arduous disciplined practice issues forth in melodious artistry. Private practice gives way to symphonic excellence.
Lord, teach us to pray. Go into a back room. Close the door. Learn the instrument and music. Become intimately attuned to the conductor. Find a praying rhythm and routine. Take prayer walks. Schedule regular twenty-four-hour prayer retreats. Visit a monastery. Seek out a prayer mentor. Keep a prayer journal. Get involved with a small prayer group. Allow the rigid demarcations of a narrowly defined prayer life to give way to a spacious life of prayer. Transform the obligatory quiet time into a daily springboard for unceasing prayer.
Taken from: To Pray Or Not To Pray
By John David Walt, Jr.
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