Needless to say, time spent with Him is the starting point. The congregation is invited to contribute to this effort. If anyone has a favorite story of answered prayer, or an insight about prayer which has been very helpful, please mail or bring to the church office. In our rapid-paced modern world, seems like a lot. What we read in the morning papers frequently seems cataclysmic in nature.
Truth is that day to day events assume an inordinate degree of importance.
We treat things of little lasting importance as being of monumental seriousness. We run around frantically as if what we did or didn't do is of ultimate importance. We confess that, in the overall sweep of history, what we think of as important is really rather trivial. We confess that we tend to focus on passing concerns at the expense of the eternal. We confess our tendency to think that everything is under our own control.