Daily Excerpt: Everybody's Little Book of Everyday Prayers (MacGregor)
excerpt from Everybody's Little Book of Everyday Prayers (MacGregor): - General Prayers Communicating with God for Adults and Children Sometimes you want to talk to God when it isn’t an occasion or specified time of day and when there isn’t something happening in your life that you want to ask God for or thank God for. You just feel a need to reach out to Him and talk to Him. You might be inspired by an especially pretty sunset, or there may be something else that you want to say that doesn’t fall under a particular prayer category. I’ve always wondered whether God likes those prayers best—when He hears from us when we want to talk to Him, not to ask him for something or to pray at a time we think we’re supposed to, but “just because.” Don’t you appreciate the phone call from a friend who says, “I was thinking about you, so I thought I’d pick up the phone and say hi”? Don’t you appreciate the spontaneous kiss from your child—or from anyone else—that isn’t a ‘H