I am reading Phillip Yancey's book, Prayer Does It Make a Difference, and a paragraph hit me. "Increasingly, time pressure crowd out the leisurely pace that prayer seems to require. Communication with other people keeps getting shorter and more cryptic: text messages, email, instant messaging. We have less and less time for conversation, let alone contemplation. We have the constance sensation of not enough not enough time, not enough rest, not enough exercise, not enough leisure. Where does God fit into a life that already seems behind schedule?"
It seems we are too busy to be busy. We have let our lives get so congested or convoluted that we don't have time to take the time to really live. Does it seem that way to you? Is that why Jesus often went away from the crowds rather than towards them?
What are some ways of escape this "not enough" mentality? Is it a matter of priorities? Do we always seem to have time to watch that one hour TV program we love and not enough time to focus on God in prayer for just a few minutes.
The early church, by their own testimony, was "devoted to prayer". We used to sing of the "sweet hour of prayer". Be honest, when was the last time you took an hour to prayer?According to research over 90 percent of Americans claim to pray all the time. Am I just part of the 10 percent?
