When Prayer Feels Like Interrupting God
I used to edit my prayers before I prayed them. Not every time. Just when the request felt too small, too ordinary, or too close to something I thought I should probably handle myself. A lost document, a tense conversation, a decision about timing, a strange heaviness that came over me halfway through the day. I would feel the nudge to pray, then immediately talk myself out of it. It felt almost rude somehow. Like God was busy holding galaxies together and I was standing there asking for help finding the right words for a text message. That sounds silly when I say it plainly, but I think a lot of people quietly live with that assumption. We bring God the big emergencies, but we hesitate to bring Him the small details that actually shape most of our day. The Strange Shame Around Small Prayers There’s a weird kind of shame that can show up in prayer when you think your concern isn’t important enough. You start comparing your need to someone else’s suffering. You think about people...