Martha: Phenomenology of Prayer 2

Prayer is a living thing and like people it grows. It can start when you’re a child, saying simple prayers for mommy, daddy, brother, sister and ice cream. But eventually either prayer has to grow up or it stops meaning anything. There are people who pray to the All Powerful every day, and they get about as much out of it as it they were praying to a box of PopTarts (I promise that one doesn’t work). Prayer has to grow, you have to not only know the words, but what they mean, and who it is they’re going to. Praying a thousand pretty words is a waste of breath if it doesn’t come from the heart. As beautiful as some prayers are, even the one we get told to pray by Jesus, it can be way to easy to monotonously say forty “Our FATHER’s” a day and have zero impact on life. That’s not the point, prayer is a form of communication, the only form of communication we have with GOD, given that HE doesn’t have a cell phone, twitter (although there is a twitter account registered to GOD that someone writes on), email address or facebook (again someone else does). Thinking that prayer can stay the same your whole life is like thinking that you can have the same conversation at thirty you could at five.