always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
Philippians 1:4
How often do our prayers sound more like monotonous, monotonal repetitions than joyful choruses? It seems sad, and just plain wrong, that prayer is often the last thing we wish to do in a day. It takes the back seat to eating, to television, to checking our email or facebook accounts. And when we do pray it is often emotionless - just saying the right words as quickly as we can without feeling guilty so that we can get on to other activities.
When Paul prayed for his beloved Philippian brothers and sisters joy filled his heart. He experienced a true emotion that was inseparably attached to his pleas for them. May our prayers be more than just words. May our whole being - mind, body, spirit, emotion - be involved in our crying out to God.
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