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Too Busy Not to Pray
Bill Hybels makes the case for slowing down to pray, with practical guidance on how to pray and how to listen to God.
Prayer is an unnatural activity.
From birth we have been learning the rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of those deep-seated values. It is an assault on human autonomy, an indictment of independent living. To people in the fast lane determined to make it on their own, prayer is an embarrassing interruption.
Prayer is alien to our proud human nature. And yet somewhere, someplace, probably all of us reached the point of falling to our knees, bowing our heads, fixing our attention on God and praying. We may look both ways to be sure no one is watching; We may blush; But in spite of the foreignness of the activity, we pray.
Why are we drawn to prayer? I see two possible explanations.