Perhaps I used to pray when you were a small child, or I started to pray as a young Christian, I remember when I was a child. My parents taught me to pray. About 7:00 every night, we prayed together, my father took me put in hands, and read some traditional prayers. Truly, I disliked praying in the evening, because at that time, there was cartoon's program in TV. It's very interesting for me. However, although I was free or busy with studying, or sleeping, they also wanted me to pray. I think that through the prayer with family in every night, my faith have been kept, grown, developed. I always practiced it to become a habit when I stayed alone to study in the university. However, that habit was not practiced permanently. Now, I'm a religious. I must pray in morning, afternoon and evening. Prayer is not only duty or work, but also my right and responsibility to God. In the previous, I practiced prayer with my parent's force, but now I pray with freedom, love and wish to seek God in my spiritual life.
To Grow in Prayer.
It can be difficult to find time for prayer during busy times in a day. One way to deal with this is to make prayer part of my daily routine, such as praying as soon as I wake up in the morning, and before you go to sleep. I usually pray in the chapter, but I feel pray better in the garden. Seeing flowers, tree, insects, the works of God, I thank God because He created them. Moreover, the nature makes me feel peace in my heart. No more war, no more fight, everything takes place peacefully and silently. In silence, I feel as see myself, review and think about some events which happened in my daily life, but I have not appreciate them yet. .
Sometimes, I wonder about a question of choice of my approach to God in prayer. Have I gone to God in prayer because of love or obligation? I see that I usually prayed easily when I got a certain problem such as study, family, community, life, Although, Prayer not only means presenting my needs to God, but also means professing my love to him.
