My prayer is that if you find your prayer life in neutral, these words may help you as they have helped me. As he says... why don't we pray? Because we are insane.
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That is the word he uses over and over.. when we KNOW that prayer, no matter how abbreviated will completely transform the day ahead, we still don't do it. He likens it to why we sin when we know sin is blackness. And it has ties back to that old bugaboo.. original sin. Or, insanity.
Anyway, I found these words refreshing (again). :0
More from Peter Kreeft here
The major obstacle in most of our lives to just saying yes to prayer, the most popular and powerful excuse we give for not praying, or not praying more, or not praying regularly, is that we have no time.
The only effective answer to that excuse, I find, is a kind of murder. You have to kill something, you have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray. Of course, you will never find time to pray, you have to make time to pray. And that means unmaking something else. The only way to install the tenant of prayer in the apartment building of your life is to evict some other tenant from those premises that prayer will occupy. Few of us have any empty rooms available.
Deciding to do that is the first thing. And you probably won't decide to do it, only wish to do it, unless you see prayer for what it is: a matter of life or death, your lifeline to God, to life itself.
If you have an ipod there are some wonderful talks you can download.. great for teens, too..
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