M. Scott Peck talks about his personal
prayer life in “Further Along the Road
Less Traveled” (Touchstone Books, 1998). He prays three times a day,
although only for a few minutes of that time are spent in what most people
would understand as prayer. The rest of the time, he sits and looks at his day
through the eyes of the “objective Other.” He plans his day and then asks God
to examine it and prioritize the activities. Later in the day, he looks back
over the events, notes those times where he saw God at work and offers thanks,
and asks for further guidance for the days to come. He says that he has found
God to be the best time-efficiency expert in the universe. Those of us who
claim not to have time to pray would do well to hear Peck’s experience and reexamine
our own priorities.
-- M. Anne Burnette Hook in “Grace Notes: Spirituality and the
Choir”
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