Christian Living, Prayer 

Many of us experience guilt and frustration about our prayer lives. We want to pray. We want to experience God's presence. But we easily get bored or irritated with our wandering minds. Here's what David Hansen has to say about extended times of prayer. "Long wandering prayer involves leaving our normal environment for the express purpose of spending several hours with God alone, but not secluded. It involves walking, or at least moving, so that we can stop at any time and consider a lily for an unpredictable length of time. It is mental wandering in the presence of God. Long wandering prayer uses the fact that our minds wander as an advantage to prayer rather than as a disadvantage. In long wandering prayer we frankly recognize that what we want to pray about may not be what God wants us to pray about and that our obsessive drive to control our minds in the presence of God--to pray about one thing or stick to one list--may be a form of hiding from God." If you want to learn how to go deeper in your relationship with God, this book will be a trusted companion in your journey. - from Amzon