Prayer

I could see myself as being sometimes too formal and too formless in my prayer life. I sometimes pray too formally and forget what prayer is mainly about and on other occasions my prayer is too formless because of my lack of focus on the intention of prayer. George A. Buttrick writes in his book Prayer that “prayer is friendship with God and it has its cultivation, its behavior, its obligations, even its disciplines; the casual mind kills it.” A strategy that I could adopt to help me avoid both of these errors in my prayer life is to practice Buttrick’s guide of prayer which is progressing gently from silent self-preparation to thanksgiving to confession to intercession and then to petition. My intent is to sincerely put these things into action and practice in my prayer life in order to develop a better prayer life. I am praying that God would guide me to enhance my friendship with him, because I am in need of more of him in my life.

-Kingsley