Did you?...

Dropped wife to work. Bought vegetables for the week. Paid the phone bill. Did you remember to thank God today?

How often is prayer in our things to do of the day? I, for instance, constantly see myself 'squeezing' time to quickly run down a prayer and read the holy book,that too, a paragraph which opens when I open the book.   Like some fortune cookie.

How busy am I! I do,however,have time for lazying around in front of the laptop with really nothing to do except stare at it hard and imagine what I can do!

I aint no saint so I aint here to preach. But amongst the huge list of things we keep learning from our parents is that,prayer is not to be tucked under the mattress of everyday life but to be opened and spread over our routine in such a way that it gets what is missing in our lives - respect. 

We need to respect God. Respect his many blessings in our difficult times. 

hey ..but for that we need to respect ourselves. 

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” 
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

You are not uncool when you pray!

Ok so what is it about praying that gets people to roll their sleeves and roll their eyes?
That it is not important?
That it makes them uncool?
That it takes up their precious time off from lazying around?

Praying not may not be important for you but if you tend to blame some supernatural being for your problems,say 'thank God' when you are happy or relieved and hope against hope when really,really expecting a good news but fearing a bad one, then my dear wannabe-atheist ,for you, there IS God.

You need not follow a rigid prayer routine but just remember to say thanks when you do get your good news!

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