Just pray!
Abba, father, So much is going on in my heart and mind that I can’t really figure out what to say when I pray to you. Gratitude, joy, hope, love, and praise for you, are all mixed in with anxiety, guilt, need, pain, anger, and a whole host of not-so-good stuff. I try to sort it all out when I pray, to dig down deep to what matters most. But sometimes, it does seem like I am “heaping up empty words, as the Gentiles do.” In my struggle to figure out what to say, I rest in the realization [...]