Why is it that so many of us struggle with prayer? We forget to pray, and when we remember to do so, we hurry through it just to get it in. Even when we take the time, our minds tend to drift, our thoughts scatter like a startled flock of starlings. After all these years, I still don’t understand why something so important to me can be so difficult: no location is prescribed, no special clothing is required. No title or office is stipulated. Yet, it sometimes seems as if I am wrestling with a greased pig!
It’s no wonder that our world is so afraid of prayer. It has great power but is so difficult to control. Consequently, so many avoid it. Anything that has power and that we cannot easily control frightens us.
The reality is that it takes discipline, not unlike that required of an athlete who needs to practice a chosen physical feat over and over and over. Only then is the action insinuated into nerves and muscles so that when it is “crunch” time, the action seems to flow effortlessly. I need to learn and relearn that lesson itself over and over and over again.
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