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Written by Skye Jethani, a contemporary author, speaker, and pastor. This is an excerpt from his book “What if Jesus Was Serious about Prayer?”

The person who learns to commune deeply with God in prayer, however, will open her eyes to see a world bathed in His presence. She will recognize God’s image in her neighbor and in her enemy, in the sacred and the ordinary, in the intimate and the immense, in the natural and the architectural. Prayer is on our knees but also walking the dog. Prayer is spreading peanut butter and jelly and remembering that Christ was broken and healed for the little mouths that will eat those sandwiches. Prayer can be in a beautiful sanctuary or at the kitchen sink. Prayer is in the music that brings us to tears and in gazing into the eyes of a newborn baby. Prayer is also in the pain and struggles we face throughout our lives and when we cry out in frustration or anger. Prayer can be in a scream of help or the clenching of a jaw. Prayer is all of this and more if we just invite it to be a part of everyday life and recognize it as so much more than heads bowed, eyes closed.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. [Acts 2:42]