Prayer - A Small and Simple Thing

This talk just hit the spot for me in several areas -

I loved her little motto to:

KEEP IT SMALL.
KEEP IT SIMPLE.
GIVE IT TIME.

My favorite part from this talk:

"Sometimes answers to prayer are quite clear—simple and direct. But often prayer becomes a long and personal conversation. We continue to pray and work, and find that in inexplicable ways the problems are gradually resolved or changed. Sometimes even our righteous and heartfelt desires are modified. Gradually, our desires become His desires. Our pleading becomes part of the experience. 

"Elder Neal A. Maxwell taught that the Lord works on us through the very process of prayer: 'Some have difficulty with the reality that prayers are petitions even though God knows all and loves all anyway. True, we are not informing God, but we are informing ourselves by reverently working through our real concerns and our real priorities and by listening to the Spirit. For us merely to say, ritualistically, “Thy will be done” would not be real petitionary prayer. This would involve no genuine working through of our feelings. There would be no experience in agonizing, in choosing, and also in submitting.'"

I loved that!  Prayer is about us working through and learning about our own feelings, with God there as our counselor and tutor.  We can pray unceasingly this way.  And referring to yesterday's short video, remember that small and simple consistent prayers are better than longer sporatic prayers (see bottom of page 5 here)  Small and Simple, Steady and Consistent - it will bear great fruit in time as we are patient and diligent.