Prayer

     I've been wanting to learn more about prayer.  A book titled A Praying Life was recommended to me a while back by Paul and Carri Sorenson.  If you were able to attend their Sunday school class at North Platte Berean, then you are familiar with the book.  It is great by the way.  Very simple and direct without being too much about mandated steps to success.  Anyway, so I am reading this book.
     I get to chapter 6, Learning to be Helpless, and as I read through the pages I am struck.  All those times that I am anxious, depressed, discourages, worried, angry, frustrated, and on and on... All those times was and is that God calling out to me? Wanting me to be helpless?  So that I will become more connected to Him? I started thinking back to all of the times that I have felt most connected to the Father.  Every time I was in a state of total helplessness.  Things turned out fine in every situation too, and I got a little closer to God.
     Now, this gets me wondering, "How often am I helpless, but don't realize it"?  In my arrogant ways, do I not see the hundreds of times each day that I have no control over anything?  Do I have control over ANYTHING?  I think that maybe I only have control over my decision to pray at each of those moments.  When I start thinking about my own helplessness in this life, and that the solution to all of helplessness' symptoms is prayer, then the whole praying without ceasing starts to look a lot more possible.