Learning to pray

I feel like a total beginner in prayer and like someone with a very large appetite.  I want to get up early in the morning to enjoy the the quiet, the dark and the solitude.  Yet, my first temptation is to answer email -- E-mail, for God' sake.  The dullest though occasionally funny bits of spam, the dumbest bits of advertising yet invented, the means for the simplest conversations yet found.  How am I ever tempted and so often successfully tempted to throw away the most precious time of the day (sorry to my late sleeping friends), and deal with email? 
Really, it is sometimes scary to face the living God. 

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Margaret Lukens
[this is good]
We humans often have a hard time settling down. I sometimes think the problem may be not that we don't have enough time, but rather that we are awash in time, and can't get serious about what matters until a deadline looms. If someone said to you, pray in the next 15 minutes or you can't pray for the next 3 days, would you get focused?

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