Neal A. Maxwell wrote:
One can pray and yet not really pray. Prayers can be routinized and made very superficial. When this happens there is very little communication and very little growth. Yet given the times in which we live, improving our prayers should be one of our deepest desires if we are genuinely interested in growing spiritually.
Prayer may not be a hard doctrine, but it can be a very deep and soul-satisfying experience. It is the means by which we can draw close to our Heavenly Father and understand better His deep concerns.
Certainly, in hard times, prayer is no less needed. It is sobering to remember that we have been told that in the final days of this dispensation that the righteous will pray almost unceasingly tor the Lord for Him to hasten His coming—so bad will be the circumstances on the earth. However, even apart from such stressful circumstances, praying is part of that triad of things we must do. serving, studying, and praying in order to find joy and happiness and to draw closer to the Lord. ~~ Neal A Maxwell, A Year of Powerful Payer (Salt Lake City, 2013 p. 33
Thank-you sooo much for your prayers— yesterday’s procedure went well. Kent
