Keep it simple.
When first I read "pray without ceasing," I saw me in a hair shirt, on my knees, 24/7. My answer was no, not in this life...but it was a justified no, of course. I mean, I'm allergic to wool much less hair shirts, plus I've got a bum knee, then who's going to walk my dog?
After much resistance, my mind slowly changed...just trying to look at it from another angle, I came to recognize the value in "thank You." Thank You for green lights...and red; for found treasure...and lost. Thank You for everything that comes into our conscious awareness...that is praying without ceasing.
Slowly, ever so slowly, I came to appreciate "thank You" as the perfect praising prayer. It was then that I began to experience the promise, "He will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him." For how can we not be at peace when we're welcoming...simply welcoming.
And when the outside of enough hits my impatience button, and my mouth, which has a mind of its own, starts flapping...thank You for that, too.
That's what all the disciplining our thoughts has been, and continues to be, about...to help us remember more quickly when, not if, we forget God and go for the glory...the glory of setting one more jerk straight, the glory of looking good up front (if you don't look to close at the behind), the glory of self will winning for the moment.
Thank You for each and every instance...presto, no more rues, regrets, remorses to wake us at 2:00 AM...or considerably fewer, at any rate.
Keep it simple.
Thank You.
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