Each month we produce a Prayer Diary
You might find it helpful as a focus for your prayers
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We tend to think of prayer as being an individual, private activity and one that should come naturally, but does it?
For some of us, prayer is a safety net - we’re glad it’s there, but we hope we never have to use it.
Prayer is about our relationship with God and like any relationship, it requires time.
I suspect many of us, like me, tend to pray on the run – sending up prayers of thanks or asking for help or intercession when the need arises, but our relationship with God cannot flourish unless we find time to be fully present to Him: speaking with and listening to him, sharing silence or beauty, delight or sorrow.
There are times when we want to spend time in quiet prayer but other times when we want to shout at God or cry. The most important thing is to share it with our heavenly father, who loves us and wants us to share our thoughts with him. In the words of the hymn ‘Take it to the Lord in prayer’.
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