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What Is Prayer? What happens when praying is difficult or when you feel you can't pray? If we decide to pray we shouldn't be surprised if it sometimes feels hard-going and unproductive or 'dry'. Most people pray hoping to find love, joy and peace – or else answers and outcomes, but this may take time. Try not to get disheartened! When we come face to face with our own spiritual inability or 'dryness', or else feel overwhelmed with negative thoughts, it can seem that there's an impossible mountain to climb. We might even feel like giving up altogether and letting despair fill us completely. Paradoxically these feelings of struggle could well be moments of growth and change when we are moving from one sort of awareness of God/the divine to a different one. So it's best to try and stay with the process and to open ourselves up to what lies ahead. Hold on to the fact that, while we may feel that the praying is all up to us, perhaps the right thing for us to do is just to 'rest in the Spirit' and let God/the divine come to meet us where we are. Give it a go! You may also like to speak with someone who is also, like you, traveling the spiritual path, and see what might come of that encounter. And does God answer prayer? Most Christians would say: 'Yes, always!' But sometimes it doesn't feel like it... It largely depends on what you think prayer is. If you pray for a particular thing to happen and it doesn't appear to - then perhaps it was the wrong thing to be praying for. Or else, perhaps your prayer was answered but not in a way that you expected or can recognise. If we believe in a loving God who cares for all of creation for each individual, regardless of who or what they are, then we need to believe that God will not ignore us. Perhaps too when we pray for God to do something in a situation, we ourselves should be more involved in making that prayer happen. Why pray for God to end all famines – if we don't do anything to help? Prayer is never an excuse for not being involved ourselves. |
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