Whole Prayer

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Prayer is meant to be a holy conversation about the everyday needs, sorrows, and joys that shape our lives. But too often our efforts fall short of our hopes. We feel listless, frustrated or thirsty, as though caught in a desert storm. We long for the refreshing presence of God to clear the air and slake our thirst.
Perhaps we have not yet learned what it means to really pray, to talk with God rather than to Him. Walter Wangerin, award-winning author of The Book of God, points out that whole prayer is a circle closed and complete. We pour out our hearts and minds to God, who listens as we do. Then we listen intently for his voice when he speaks. To eliminate any part of the circle is to cut the conversation short and to diminish the prayer.