How to Pray - How to Pray for Dummies

Hello, everyone. People often ask me how to pray or why doesn't God seem to be answering
prayers.People wonder what to say. Many say that they don't know what to say.

In this post I will give you a valuable clue about prayer.

Paul gives us a hint when he says that we should pray without ceasing. How do we pray without ceasing?  Actually it is easy. But you need to know the secret.

Some people think that to pray without ceasing is like the Zen Master puzzle designed to get a person to see that you can't figure it out, like "what is the sound of one hand clapping?"

We know that certain Christian mystics and enlightened people seem to have found the answer. People like Madame Guyon, Miguel de Molinos, Francois Fenelon, William Law, Mary Tileston, Hannah Whithall Smith, or St. Francis de Sales, for example, talk about the life of prayers, the inner life, and living in the Presence of God.

So, it the answer is that you must find a prayerful state of mind.

I can tell you what this prayerful state of mind is - mostly by showing you what it is not.

Where do most of us spend our time? Lost in our daydreams, worries, fears, doubts, and ruminating about the past.

You cannot find God in worries, in fantasy, in images, in visualizations, in daydreams or in planning and scheming.

God is where thoughts are not.

You have to get out of your thinking. You have to rise above your thinking so you are not lost down there in the jungle of your imagination and worries.

Stay tuned for the next installment coming later today.


The first of a 5 part series which may change your life.