Thoughts on prayer

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  God hears and He listens. How can He not when we claim Him to be the omnipotent and omnipresent being that He is.

  
  

  And He answers, often in the most unconventional ways.

  
  

  When you pray, pray not upon your worries, your woes, or your insecurities.

  
  

  He knows all of that

  
  

  Instead, pray with thansgiving for the small things in life.

  
  

  Pray for the ability to be open to experience

  
  

  Pray for His strength, and for your ability to surrender yourself to Him.

  
  

  Pray for the ability to breath, to take a step back, and to acknowledge His works in the midst of all that you do, seek, and speak. Pray that you will bid Him enter.

  
  

  Make your prayers be a moment to find safe haven; to acknowledge that yes life is crappy, but here you are, and here He abides.

  Pray, and recognized that He has given you the necessities to survive and forebear.

  
  

  Pray that you will be ever ready to welcome every moment that G-d may speak, for He does, in little acts and stolen moments, in the random hello of a friend to the smile of a stranger.  

  Sometimes, you will have to initiate and invite His presence to you by extending it to others through your smile, your kind words, and your compassionate acts. Pray that you are able.

  
  

  Give thanks, for you are pursuing something noble each and every moment. Give thanks for while you struggle, others would wish to be in your shoes.

  
  

  Rejoice in the mysteries, be glad for you have options as obscure they may be to you.

  
  

  Pray that your imagination will be great and extends beyond the here and now.

  Just pray, never stop, and always remember others pray for you. And when all has been said and done, give thanks for this sacred moment.