Dear God...

May I first say that God is AWESOME!?! He reveals his love and his plans for us in so many beautiful and unexpected ways. Now what can we do to show our Lord, our creator and savior, just how much we truly appreciate his gifts to us? Well there is a really wonderful and convenient way to do that. It even has a name.

Prayer

Prayer is a way for us to connect to God in a conversational manner. GOD, the creator of mighty rivers and air conditioning (Thanks SOOOO much for that one!) simply wants you to look to him and say "Thanks you Lord, that I am alive." There are many many ways to pray; such as sitting down, laying down, eyes closed, eyes open, head down, hands folded, lifted, pressed to your streaming eyes, out loud, or silent, etc.

But God doesn't care HOW you pray, He just wants to hear from you. He's not going to ignore you because you weren't kneeling or you sitting up straight enough. He just wants to have a nice talk with you.

Now I would like to talk about a form of prayer that I have taken a great interest in. The Rosary is something a lot of people seem to misunderstand. I guess that goes along with the "Catholics pray to Mary" thing (which is inaccurate) but I'll get into that some other time. I find that when I pray the Rosary, I am more focused on what I am praying about and I feel a stronger connection with the things on my heart and the matters of my prayers. Yes, it is a little bit of a longer way to pray, but I never really pay much attention to the length. I find myself caught up in the words, and I feel like I truly mean what I'm saying when It takes me a little longer.

Prayer is something that I used to (and sometimes still do) struggle with. But the more you work on your prayer life, the better you get at it. I love to pray because its the best way to let God know that I love him, and I love the people that He has put in my life.