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A Prayer for When You Keep Putting Off Prayer

For when days have gone by without prayer or Scripture, and starting again feels heavier than it should.

When it feels like this

After a day or two of not praying, beginning again gets strangely harder — as if the doorway rose while you were away. It did not. There was never a doorway.

An example prayer

SLOTH · A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE

I come before the God who did not scold Elijah when he collapsed exhausted under the broom tree, but fed him and let him sleep before setting him on the road again.

I let the day you entrusted to me slide by.

Let me start again with the one small thing right in front of me.

Thank you that you do not turn away from those who return to you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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