I'm changing the way I pray
I've been praying a lot more lately. That's always a good thing, I think. And, for me, my prayer time seems to increase the closer I get to my wits' end. I have found myself praying in the middle of the night, unable to sleep; at my desk while working, unable to concentrate; out walking with my family, unable to enjoy the significance of a moment. Most of the time I pray for various people and situations - whoever comes to mind at those times - but those prayers will always include a line that goes something like this: "Lord, I don't know what to do. Please show me what to do," but only in Afrikaans, because I commune with the Lord in my mother tongue... or the Language Of Heaven as many may know it. Anyway. C.S. Lewis wrote: "We must lay before him [God] what is in us; not what ought to be in us." And so many of my prayers changed a tiny bit. Instead of asking God to show or tell me what to do , I just straight-up asked Him for a miracle . Instead ...