Prayer

I've just finished a three-week sermon series on prayer, though you don't know it because I haven't posted my outlines or manuscripts (soon, hopefully).

In the meantime, prayer seems to come up in my life from all directions right now.  I just read Ann Voskamp's blog post - Prayer: Why We Struggle and How Not To - which someone had emailed me some time ago.  I often find this woman's work to be very inspired and beautiful.

She mentions fixed-time prayer, or praying the hours.   You can find more information on this here.

And, perhaps you need, like I do, Nike's "just do it" answer that Ann gives so well.  Why do we fail to pray, she asks?  Her conclusion is that it's idolatry: we fail to pray because we fall into patterns of life that create idols out of our selves, we live as though our stuff, our interest, our things, our schedules are most important.  That's a hard judgment.  It seems hard for Ann to make.  It seems hard for me to read and then restate.  And yet, is there truth in it?