Let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow!

Last night Andrea and I just wanted to get out in the gorgeous weather that Houghton was experiencing. We had a heat wave of about 45 degrees last night around 8. We didn't know where we were going, we just knew we needed to get out. So we did and we started to make a lap around campus. As we got going I just felt a need that we should pray. You see it's finals week this week and that translates to over-worked, under-slept, cranky teenagers placed into a little room by the masses. This does not translate to an enjoyable environment on campus, but the fun has just begun. I am close with Andrea, but other times when I have suggested things like this they just got brushed to the side. I thought I would give it a chance and she agreed. So as we walked we prayed. We made our first lap and we both wanted to continue. We prayed for a lot of different things (i.e. President Shirley Mullen, our campus safety, the attitudes of students, our country and leadership, our lives and character) just anything that was on our heart was on our lips in prayer. It was amazing.
Andrea and I both had our first final today...western civ. We both were kind of nervous about the test and what would be on it. So we prayed again. Something that is so essential to our walk with Christ is one of the first things that we don't get to on our to-do list. Maybe because it is something that we can hide from others(after all we are "continually" praying) and maybe get to as we get into bed. But as I prayed I remembered how much I actually enjoy doing it and its even more enjoyable when you have someone to pray with. It's easier to see prayer as a conversation with God as you do it aloud. And I understand for some people this is like taking on Goliath and I am not saying praying aloud is the only way. Not a bit. But I am saying that we need to do it, however we choose, we just need to be in prayer.
I am now attending college in Western New York, and if you know anything about New York it's that it nothing more than the city. But if you know two things about New York, it's that they get alot of snow. An interesting thing about is that it changes things. At the first snow fall it does not immediately stick to the ground, the ground must get to the right freezing temperature and thenthe snow can go somewhere. After the ground is cold enough, the snow just can't stop coming down it needs to keep going in order to build up enough for anyone to notice. It can snow for hours and you might get an inch or two (or a foot in Buffalo). But once it's there, it's there for awhile. It is only when the snow refuses to fall that we no longer have it.
This is alot like our prayer lives. I am not saying that we should put a bunch of prayers in our savings account and accumulate them and live off of that until we get low. I want to focus on the beginning on the snow fall. It is a lot of work to develop a prayer life, but it's possible. With little prayers as we wait in line, or before dinner, or in the car they begin to add up and it becomes easier to talk with God. And as we continue we become a little bit bolder in our prayers in what we are praying and how we pray. It is when we stop and let complacency take over that we have to refreeze the ground. So as a word of encouragement let the words flow from your mouth to the ears of God and let them flow, let them flow. Let them flow.