Does anyone else have a problem keeping your thoughts in line while praying?
My mind wanders
here, there, and then over there again until I realize that I have been keeping
the Ultimate Audience waiting. In the
past when my mind would swing back in a moment of startled awakening, I used to
envision a somewhat-patient-challenged-Supreme-Being pulling out his pocket
watch urging, “Come now woman, back to your story.”
One day I read something which changed
the way I view things. It stated that as
God looks over the world, he lingers over any face that is weeping or eyes that
are laughing; and when he passes a soul in worship, God kneels down too. So I now picture Him patiently sitting beside
me – perhaps thankful for a little down time himself – thinking, “That
marvelous mind of hers will have to return to me sometime!” and I somehow feel
gladdened that He and I get to spend an extended length of time together in
these ways.
I hope that I can also
count on you to act in the same manner whenever I leap into one of my
characteristic tangential abysses.
