Editorial September 12, 2016 Issue

Resistless prayer

Deborah Huebsch

Prayer—how’s it working for you? Those of us who pray are often looking for ways to make it work better for us. There’s an unspeakable spiritual richness that comes from quietly and deeply connecting to our loving Father-Mother. Prayer can inspire us, guide us, assure us, and much more.

But once you’ve decided to devote time to prayer, have you ever felt as if you were slogging through molasses when you actually sat down to do it? I have. Once, after settling down with a determination not to move until I had put in some decent prayer time, I got distracted and, without thinking, went off to another room, to sort laundry!

Even when we really want to be still and listen to God, it may sometimes seem as if every distraction on earth is whispering (or even yelling) for us to notice it instead of God.

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