Prayer

Prayer.

It is something that I have never been good at — well, except perhaps when I was in need, and even then not so much. But God has been teaching me just how important prayer and alone-time with God is. Or rather, He has been telling me just how important it is, and I am trying to learn it just how required it is for our walk. It is something I struggle with because, although I am grateful to God and I know that He is faithful and true, it is very easy for me to let the daily things get in the way. I have been told that you need to be intentional about setting time alone for God, but then also warned that it should not be something you check off of your list as “something to do.”

Like any other relationship, if you say that you love someone but then spend no time with them — is that really love? I guess that is the question that I ask myself and I would say no. Or it can be, but it is not a very strong love. You can have affection for people you do not often see, but that is not a very deep love because you are not involved in their lives in any meaningful way. The opposite is true as well of course.

“Dream”

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since but one voice is heard, it’s all a dream,
One talker aping two.
Sometimes it is, yet not as they

Conceive it. Rather, I
Seek in myself the things I hoped to say
But lo!, my springs are dry.
Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The listener’s role and through
My dumb lips breathe and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.
And thus you neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem
Two talkers, thou art One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.

— C.S. Lewis