Prayer

In church today we had a missionary start his prayer with, “Dear Jesus, thank you for this day…”  And for some reason I was surprised.  I don’t really know why, but I was.  And I began to think.  How DOES a missionary pray?  How does a pastor pray or Billy Graham or Mother Theresa?  Do we expect that their words always need to be eloquent and theological?  Do they have to quote scripture and make each prayer long and drawn out?  Do they have to use loud speech and hand gestures?  Do they need to say things that make us nod and yell out “Amen?”  Or can it be simple?  Can they start out with “Dear Jesus, thank you for this day…”  Then I thought, how should a son or daughter of THE KING, pray?  We are not praying to a space up in the sky or a high being that is floating around us.  We are praying to our Father-our Dad.  It is not the words at all that matter.  Who cares how fluffy or unfluffy they might be.  If you don’t mean them, what good are they?  Prayer is a direct connection from your heart to His.  Make it count.  Mean every word.  Even if you are thanking Him for the day, He cares.  And He hears.

Love you

Rachel