Real Praying

Obviously- praying should be a vital part of any Christians life since it's how we talk to God. I kinda wish that when we prayed we just called it talking. Praying sometimes seems so official. I know that when I'm talking to God these days I find myself saying things like.."you know?" and "gosh, I just don't know." It's more real when I talk to Him now. Not like He's this far off entity in the sky-but rather He's just sitting next to me in my car and we're just talking and talking. Well really I'm doing the out loud talking. Over the last month I have been doing this outloud prayer thing where I talk to God in an audible voice-not just in my head. It felt reallly weird doing it the first time, but it doesn't feel that way anymore. I look forward to longer drives to destinations because that means that either on the way there or the way back it's going to be my prayer time. It's fun. Sometimes i get caught up in music or being on the phone and I realize that I need my prayer time and that feels really good. Like I want to do it- He's like the friend that you want to talk. It's weird to me that He has changed my heart so much in such a small amount of time. I love talking to God and telling Him what's going on with me and my life. I love being able to pray for my family and friends. It's really incomprehensible the resources that God has given us--especially prayer/talking to Him. Last week God answered so many of my little prayers. They were little in the grand scheme of things-but really they were/are huge for me. I've always known how important prayer is--but I've never really KNOWN, you know?

I'm fervently praying that we seize the ridiculous opportunities that He gives us EVERYDAY- take those moments and glorify Him.