The Lord's Prayer, then, really is the perfect prayer. It has been said that you shouldn't pray for anything unless you find it in the Lord's Prayer, and that's good advice - it's an excellent guide to making really effective prayer for anything. A lot of us get discouraged when we think about prayer. Really, of course, He's right here with us, all the time. One of the things wrong with the world today is that people don't talk to one another.
Married couples lose the gift of communication, and friends become distanced from each other.
The Church has taught about this danger for centuries, based on the most important relationship of all - our relationship with God, our loving Father. If we learn to love God, and to tell Him all our troubles and triumphs, we grow in love and trust for Him. From this love and trust grows our love of each other. When a husband and wife stop talking to one another, they eventually lead separate lives, and then divorce. Many of us know the pain and misery caused by human divorces, which could have been avoided if the couple involved had taken the time to talk to each other.