How to Pray

As you set out to pray, wonder first what God may want to hear.  If you plan to grovel, to talk of unworthiness, ask is it making you someone with something to say.  Is it the voice of someone you would want to hear?  If you want to be elaborate in your praise, know that it becomes ludicrous after a very short time, a more saccharine speech than most want to hear.  If you are intent upon complaining, you might better select one issue than develop a litany of what is wrong, and if your purpose was to ramble ask is your audience as interested in taking this journey as you may be.  Let prayer be honest.  Allow it to treat you as equivalent people, saying briefly what you want heard then seeking in silence what is a better exchange.