Sunday, June 11
Perhaps you have had the experience of setting aside time to pray, closing your eyes and folding your hands, and beginning to talk to God. All seems well until your mind begins to wander off onto topics other than what you intended. You pull yourself back, get a few more phrases out and then your mind takes off again. Two thoughts here. First, this is one of the reasons we started this week with 30 seconds of silence in prayer. You can probably keep your mind focused for that long. Then as you grow comfortable with your prayer, increase the time. As you increase the time you spend in prayer, you will likely also decrease the amount of time your mind is distracted.
And yet, we also want to give you permission to let your mind wander as you pray. As we have explored this week, prayer is not just talking to God, it is also listening. God sometimes uses our mental wanderings to teach us what we should actually be praying about. We may think we know what we want to talk to God about, but God knows what is really on our heart, God knows what we need before we ask. So, let your mind wander as you pray. For perhaps your mind is not wandering away from prayer, but wandering toward what God knows you really need to pray about.
With sighs too deep for words, O Lord, teach me to pray:
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