Don't Pray Half-Hearted

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches us, “When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and speak to your Father who is in that secret place.”

Jesus is teaching us to pray with all our heart. But I think we only pray half-hearted. God doesn’t want half-hearted prayer. He wants your whole heart.

What is prayer? Prayer is friendship with God.

But we don’t go about it that way.

Friends spend time together, talking, listening and just being together. That is prayer.

The first things friends do is they tell each other what they have been thinking about.

I have a friend I talk with often. He always starts out asking: “Whatta you been thinking about?” I tell him what’s on my mind and the conversation goes from there.

That is precisely how we should begin prayer, tell God what you have been thinking about, tell him what is most on your mind.

Jesus said to St. Faustina, “Talk to me simply, as a friend to a friend.” Diary 1487

That is how we should pray!