A new way of praying

A new way of praying
That isn't about me.
Not my laundry list of how God should 'fix' things
Yet, my openness to to how God wants to move through me.
Not that I don't care about
people
situations and circumstances
hurting and sorrow and grief
I trust God enough to lift these things up before Him and let God be God.

So what is prayer if it isn't dumbly reciting lists or rote recitation of liturgy?

It is the list and the liturgy
infused with the recognition and offer of my life
met by and subsumed in
the reality and the power of the Holy Spirit

One wave running back out to sea (which is my life tossed briefly up on the shores of reality) where it meets the larger waves rolling in (the work of God though the Holy Spirit in the world). Prayer is where those two waves meet, they come together and are reunited, inseparable. It takes place in the rough waters of the surf, not up on the dry land or out in the deep water beyond the surf line.

We hold the lists and the liturgy lightly to offer them and then let them go.