Good morning…
I am grateful that my small group of college friends are gifted at keeping in touch, even after thirty years. We are spread throughout the country. Ohio and Pennsylvania. Indiana and Illinois. Maryland and Georgia. Arizona and Virginia. Recently, I reached out to one college friend I had not talked with for a while. Living in Ohio, not far from my hometown, she owns a gorgeous horse farm on the homestead where she was raised. Catching me up on her life she wrote: “My faith continues to be a rock in my life, but I do struggle to spend time with the Bible or in Bible study. I try to walk each day asking for the Lord’s direction, but know I don’t always take quiet time to listen. Actually, being on the farm helps slow me down and I frequently pray by stall. I know – weird, but I pick a topic each morning and pray on it while I clean a stall…and switch when I move to the next stall.”
Prayers come in various forms and the best ones are tightly woven into the fabric of daily life. How ingenious of the Holy Spirit to spark in my friend the creative desire to “pray by stall.” Not owning a horse farm myself, maybe I could adapt her method, “praying by dirty dish,” “praying by folded garment,” or “praying by red light.” How might we each best pray daily, deliberately?
Fitting our personality, our lifestyle, and our season of life, we are each inspired by God’s Holy Spirit to pray in unique ways. Lifting …aromatic incense to God at the daily morning and evening prayers, setting out fresh holy bread on a clean table, and lighting the lamps on the golden Lampstand every night. We continue doing what God told us to in the way he told us to do it…
2 Chronicles 13:11a (MSG),
Sue
