Prayer

This post doesn't have anything to do w/ my weight/organizational progress. I just felt the need to talk about it. It does fall into the "better myself" category.

I was reading a friend's blog the other day and she had an interesting post about how she keeps a prayer journal. In it she writes what she wishes to pray for and then follows the entry w/ a nightly prayer. She said a recurring item on her list was motivation. I found myself thinking about this idea and was struck by the fact that while I'm not a person who prays regularly, it had certainly never crossed my mind to pray for something other than people. I grew up hearing about the prayer chain. My mom was called when someone in our community was sick, died, in the hospital/surgery, etc. and needed to be prayed for. She then called the next person on the list. I regularly pray for my family and friends every week at church, but never had the idea to pray for things like strength, patience, motivation.

I want to thank my friend for opening this door to me. I'm ashamed to say I usually only pray at church and that's mainly b/c you almost have to, but sometimes I pray in the shower. It seems like that's where I do most of my thinking, probably b/c that's about the only time I'm alone during the day. I'm going to start thinking more about what kind of things I want to pray for, who I want to pray for, and how to help these people. I want to give strength to my grandpa, courage to my aunt, and patience to myself. But that's another post for another day.