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No matter how busy you get, you can maintain a desire to bless - and that's prayer.
Who has time to pray at work? My calendar is completely booked, people are lining up outside my office, and the phone won’t stop ringing! Pray? You’ve got to be kidding me!
No, I’m not kidding, there is time to pray, and in fact there is time to pray the entire time you are at work. I think some of the problem is in our definition of prayer.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.”
Prayer doesn’t have to be on bended knee (though there is nothing wrong with kneeling during prayer). Prayer is the desire to do right. The desire to help someone, to do good, to benefit others. Prayer isn’t pleading your case with God. God knows our need before we ask – the problem may be that while we are pleading with God, He’s trying to talk to us, but we can’t hear because we are too busy telling God our problems. Stop talking and listen – God is speaking with you, giving you the inspirations that will get you through today, to get you through this very minute.
What’s really cool about prayer, is that it’s a natural activity – the desire to do right! You don’t have to be a scholar, you just need to desire to do good, to do what’s right.
You do have time to pray – to do good – to do what’s right. It’s natural, and its blessings are both seen and felt – by everyone.
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