The Essence

The smell of prayer is repentant and penitent.

Mea Culpa Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!

Listening to your own heart is a difficult exercise in prayer.  My needs, seem to leap over my mirror vision of myself and leap to the forefront of my expressions.  I need this and that and soon the shopping cart is full of stuff and our hearts are empty of the vision of God.

Remembering who God is in Praise.  Ministering to God in Worship is more than saying how very perfect and holy He is.  It has to seep down past my self aggrandizement…

Remembering that Jesus said 2 men went down to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and One a Publican…Do we want to be heard in heaven or heard on earth?