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    How Do I Pray?
    How Do I Pray?
    How Do I Pray?
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    How Do I Pray?

    By John Pritchard

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    Our lives are increasingly overscheduled, multi-tasking, and hectic. For everyone who could use more than 24 hours in a day (that is, most of us), John Pritchard explores the art and power of prayer and explains how to slow down enough to hear what God wants to say to us. A book for all who are curious about how to become more in tune with the Spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChurch Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781640650329
    How Do I Pray?
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    John Pritchard

    John Pritchard was born in Wales in 1964. His NHS career began with a summer job as a Casualty receptionist in his local hospital, after which eye-opening introduction he worked in administration and patient services. He currently helps to manage the medical unit in a large hospital in the south of England. ‘Dark Ages’ is his fourth novel.

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      How Do I Pray? - John Pritchard

      1

      Getting started

      Making space for God

      So there just might be something in it – this ‘something else’. And we might have noticed some germ of an instinct, some stirring inside. A reaching out. An instinct to say thank you, a need to say sorry, or a desire to help someone. But we can all too easily lose the moment unless we make space for it to breathe.

      And that’s what we’re terribly short of in our culture – space to let quiet things breathe. The pace of daily life is accelerating and the demands are unremitting. It’s as if we got on the 8.15 from Great Snoring, the slow train that stops at every little village, but instead of chugging its way gently through the countryside it gets faster and faster, accelerating steadily and inexorably, steam ing through every station, until the carriage is swaying alarmingly and we’re hanging on to our seats and to our luggage – and still the speed increases! When is it going to come off the tracks?

      Or here’s another image. You know when your suitcase is full, and not just full, but absolutely full to bursting? You jam another shirt in and kneel on the case to shut it. And now there’s a sweater you’d forgotten. You stand on the case to force it shut. No more, you say! And then you realize you’ve left out your sponge bag. It’s just no use. You can’t fit anything else in. You need a different strategy. You need to start again.

      In a culture where speed and the ability to ‘pack more in’ is becoming self-defeating, many people are crying out for space. They long to slow down. A group of porters were once rushing through the jungle at a ridiculous pace set by the Europeans who had hired them. Eventually they got to a clearing and sat down. The Europeans tried to get them moving again but the head porter said, ‘No, we’re not moving. We’ve come so far and so fast that now we have to wait for our souls to catch up with us.’ So does our culture.

      Individually, therefore, we need to build some slowing-down time into our lives. Then we can listen to the quiet whispers from another country that we’re just becoming aware of. We need to look for the moments of calm in our day and stretch them out. We need to create times for stopping, taking everything out of the case and trying a different way of packing altogether. Slowing down is a vital part of the spiritual journey. Then we can stop panicking about when we’re going to come off the rails, and start noticing the fascinating countryside we’re travelling

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