1 Thessalonians 5:17
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
17 pray without ceasing,
"Prayer is ongoing communication with God and as such occurs beneath the articulate, verbal level. Most of my own prayers are silent and break all sorts of grammatical rules! So we can be driving a car, doing the shopping, watching TV, or weeding the garden and at the same time be praying. Our prayers at such times may be silent expressions of barely conscious thoughts. Or they can be silent or verbalised fragments that intrude into our other activities from time to time.
Seeing prayer in this way allows us to have prayer in the centre of our life, not as some separate compartment. We turn our ceaseless thoughts into ceaseless prayer. All those fear-flooded concerns can be converted to prayers. All that glad remembrance can become prayer. All our restless preoccupation can be transformed into prayer. We do this by bringing God into the picture. Rather than just thinking, we think and invite God to hear our thoughts and to shape and reshape them. We turn our interior monologue of thinking into the dialogue of prayer." - David Reay
"Prayer is ongoing communication with God and as such occurs beneath the articulate, verbal level. Most of my own prayers are silent and break all sorts of grammatical rules! So we can be driving a car, doing the shopping, watching TV, or weeding the garden and at the same time be praying. Our prayers at such times may be silent expressions of barely conscious thoughts. Or they can be silent or verbalised fragments that intrude into our other activities from time to time.
Seeing prayer in this way allows us to have prayer in the centre of our life, not as some separate compartment. We turn our ceaseless thoughts into ceaseless prayer. All those fear-flooded concerns can be converted to prayers. All that glad remembrance can become prayer. All our restless preoccupation can be transformed into prayer. We do this by bringing God into the picture. Rather than just thinking, we think and invite God to hear our thoughts and to shape and reshape them. We turn our interior monologue of thinking into the dialogue of prayer." - David Reay
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