{"id":64500,"date":"2025-09-01T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/?p=64500"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:09:48","slug":"honest-prayers-for-a-hurried-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/honest-prayers-for-a-hurried-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest Prayers for a Hurried Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A&nbsp;good book on prayer is a delight, especially when it makes me want to pray (not just reminding me that I must), gives me hope that I can (not just pointing out how I fall short), and offers practical wisdom for growth. Paul Miller\u2019s <em>A Praying Life<\/em> does all three. It\u2019s the first book I recommend on this vital topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller\u2019s warmth and humor play a big part. Like me, he has a child with significant disabilities. That experience has shaped his understanding of prayer, lament, and perseverance, but also of ordinariness and not taking yourself too seriously. The result is a book that makes prayer feel as natural as brushing your teeth. You read it and think, <em>Yes. I can do this<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also makes you want to pray. The most underlined sentence in my copy is: \u201cMany people struggle to learn how to pray because they are focusing on praying, not on God.\u201d That floored me. Prayer seeks intimacy and relationship\u2014like Jesus joining for dinner (Rev. 3:20) or a child asking&nbsp; parents for ordinary things (Matt. 7:7-11). Prayer is conversation, not performance; it is not strong people displaying virtue but weak people expressing need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That simple insight lies at the heart of <em>A Praying Life<\/em>. It reshaped how I pray and how I teach others to pray, impacting not only my spiritual life but my church\u2019s. Good books on prayer do that. 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