prayer

I'm in the midst of reading Philip Yancey's book Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? and I'm finding it endlessly fascinating and challenging. Like many people of faith, I'm someone who struggles with prayer, though for me the biggest challenge isn't that I don't think it's effective/valuable or that I don't think God is listening, it's that I have a hard time unplugging. I struggle with being still. I always feel like there aren't enough hours in the day and I should be doing something, not taking time to be still, to pray, to listen. I've been told that I'm quite a contemplative person, but the contemplative life, if I live it at all (and I'd argue I don't), does not come easy to me.

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