How strange this life is

Today I've been reading blogs from my family and friends and am seeing a theam going on.

Prayer.  What does it do?  What does it accomplish?  Why bother with it?

These are my thoughts on the matter.

Prayer is not the speaking of the words "Thank you father for this food" is not a prayer unless you actually mean it.  Prayer is a feeling, a purpose, a commune with God.  A time of talking with God within and without.  For he is in our inside lives as well as our outside lives.

The Bible tells us to pray constantly and what better way to spend a life than to do just that?

I of course don't, or I'd most likely have moved on from this place before.

So...I give it a shot now and again.  But I'm lazy and the Father is patience.

What to say?  In your mind, see things as you would have them be for Yourself!  Doing so for others is a chancy thing as they are praying also and you don't know for what.

No matter what they say out loud you won't know their heart.  That's God's job.  And people lie.  Even to themselves.

Life is a prayer.  How we live is how we pray.  Seems a lot of folks don't believe that.  Yet how else would God be always in our lives, in our heads and with us always?

When it's all done and done and your at your lowest.  Is that not when God steps up and takes care of things?

He has for me at least.

And so often it's not an external thing that changes.  It's inside me, the way I see something, the way I do something, the way I think of something.  Behold!  There is God.

Again and again.  And I have to wonder if the worries of the world come to me or do I attract them to me.

If I can do that, I can be rid of them as easily.

God created us to be creators.  Don't settle for being small.  Be large!  Truly live as if there's no tomorrow.

Heck from what folks tell me the world will end in 2012.  According to the Aztec calendar.

Personally I wonder if the Aztecs just figured that they had done enough and let future generations do their own math.

Be well all and know you are loved.

Create a great day.

John.