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Prayer

Why don't we pray? We have all offered the usual excuses:
"I don't have time."
"I don't know how."
"I can't get any time alone."

If we are honest, the responses should be something like this:
"I doubt prayer."
"I doubt God."
"My prayers don't go anywhere."
"I fear prayer."
"I fear the change that prayer can bring."

If we were to use these answers in any other relationship, we would find ourselves without the relationship. That is to say, in our relationships we work to communicate with each other. Why should our relationship with God be any different? The language of our prayer is the language between friends, between parent and child, between master and servant, between lovers.