Fine Tuning Your Prayers Requires Evaluating Your Prayers, First
by Christie Perkins
What are your prayers like?
Check. Yep, my morning prayers come as a little check mark on my to do list. It’s a bad habit, really. It’s a bad habit because the prayer is insincere. It can be quick. But, sometimes it’s insanely long.
I find my mind scuttling around in my to-do list. It replays funny moments from yesterday. And it dwells on, and hashes out, current frustrations. It even wanders over to planning out the day’s outfit. And sometimes it’s replaying scenes from a movie or dream.
And my eyes flash open. I’m praying about this? The prayer’s not pretty. And I end up finding myself talking, not to God, but to myself.
Go ahead- judge me. Diagnose me with some crazy explanation for my behavior. Call it whatever you want. But I call it my practice prayer.