It's the BEST Thing I Can Do!

 "He prayeth best who loveth best."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834

Best: of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality.

Recently someone shared news of a prayer concern and said what we all have said at one time: “We can pray. It’s the only thing we can do.”

In that moment these are the words that came into my mind: “It’s the best thing we can do.” I like that. I guess I was getting tired of hearing that prayer is the only thing we can do. Best. Best. Best!

Whether we’ve been praying from the start of a concern, or we’ve come down to realizing there is nothing we can do about the situation, I want to remember that praying is the BEST thing we can do.

Last year I wrote an article on meditation and shared these words: “As the hymn “Be Thou My Vision” says: “Thou my best thought, by day or by night.” Mary E. Byrne, 1880-1931 and Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935. God is our best thought, the very best thought our mind can have. God’s love comes through to fill us and help us in our daily walk

God is the BEST anything: praying, thinking, serving, working. He is the BEST period.

I’m making a decision to never again say, “It’s the only thing we can do.” My words will always be, “I’m praying. It’s the BEST thing I can do.”

"The best prayers often has more groans than words."

John Bunyan, 1628-1688

By His Grace . . .