Day 22

Today is more of a topic than a specific verse or chorus.

Prayer (:

I am always forgetting to pray, and I feel terrible about it, but I know I am not alone. Life kind of sweeps you away and it's hard to remember to get everything done in a day, so things must become expendable. One thing I keep trying to work on is making prayer one of the inelastic ones, but it's been pretty difficult. I do love praying, it's a good thing for me. It's calming, I can get things off my chest, kind of review my day, figure out what I like and don't like about what I'm doing, what I want to be doing, as well as sort out my feelings about everything under the sun. I know for a rather long time, I prayed that the snow would melt and the sun would shine, and I now find myself praying for a thunderstorm because I love them so much. Prays can be that simple. Sometimes, I find my prays ramble on and on about one particular topic, and can get rather emotional about it. But guess what-I know that God is listening to those prayers just as much as my simple ones. I also like to pray for people who I myself cannot help, like the Haitians and the Chileans. One thing that I've noticed about myself, and more prevalently in my prayers, is that I feel more pain for the people who I cannot physically help. Another thing that I like to do is pray in a group, just going around in a circle. It has brought me a lot closer to some people, and openned new friendships up to me that I never thought would exist. But the best thing of all about praying is getting to talk to the greatest father ever (:

Mel