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Wednesday
October 2009
Fall Traditions & Missed Opportunities
By Cheryl Davis, Director of Ministry Outreach -MOPS International
I love the fall season! I love the leaves, I love the smells and Ilove the change in temperature. Each year, my kids and I go outand pick colorful leaves to create fall wreaths. We have donethis for years. We carefully stick each leaf to paper plate circle.Each wreath has a different look. Some years are very lopsided,others very precise.The day we planned to pick the leaves this fall got too full of other things - breakfast with my sister and early Christmasshopping, taking a nap, and watching football. That night, as Iheard the rain pouring down outside my window, I rememberedthat we hadn’t gotten around to picking leaves. My heart sank.I knew what the rain was doing to those precious trees and theircolorful but fragile leaves.The next morning, while driving around town I could see thebare trees. No longer were they orange and gold capped. Howhad I let the experience of picking leaves with my children pass?Why did I put other things like coffee and shopping aheadof this special time we shared? I had taken our tradition forgranted, and hadn’t made it a priority.Sometimes I think we may treat prayer like it’s a tradition thatis always there. We forget to make it a priority on our calendar,and we expect it to just happen. Like my forgotten fall leaf tra-dition, prayer can be something we forget until the rain comes.God wants our relationship with him to be constant and grow-ing, rather than full of the regret of missed opportunities. Hedesires us to be in constant communication with him. “Praywithout ceasing” is Paul’s instruction in 1 Thessalonians 5:17.Prayer is an opportunity to connect with God; let’s not miss thisopportunity!
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Cosmic ChicksHere’s an acronym that can helpyou as you focus on theopportunity for prayer:
P
repare
— Set time aside to bewith God, the Creator of theUniverse.
R
eady
— Be ready for God tomeet you; come with a sense of expectation.
A
ctively listen
— Prayer is twoway conversations. Spend thesame amount of time listeningas you do putting your requestsbefore God.
Y
earn
— Yearn for this timetogether. I guarantee that themore you set time aside to prayon a daily basis, the more youwill desire to be with God.
Let’s talk about it!
Here are some practical questions to ask yourself this week.•What can I do to actively listen to the voice of God?•In the midst of my very busy life with preschoolers and othercommitments, how can I stir up a desire to be in prayer?•What are some practical ways we can make time for prayer?
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