Praying at the Computer

I just finished preaching a sermon on Prayer and Meditation for Lent. For four Wednesdays in a row, I went to a different church and preached the same sermon. If you'd like to read it, it's on my sermon blog here.

Preaching about the spiritual disciplines of prayer and meditation four weeks in a row has really gotten me thinking about how I actually practice them. I do meditate in the morning, which sometimes also becomes prayer time. But I realized yesterday that I do a lot of my praying in three places: while walking, while driving, and in front of my computer.

It seems like most of the news I get about people who need prayers comes from e-mails and other news articles. And I like to pray for things right as I find out about them so I won't forget. So, I'll get an e-mail and stop right then to pause and pray. Funny how these things work, isn't it?

So, when do you pray most often?