happiness and prayer habits

so i've always really liked the idea of having some deep and thoughtful blog that tons of people follow and change their lives through it...

well i'm not that deep nor intellectual. i'm simple. i don't have a ton of deep life changing thoughts that people write down and bring up later. and i'm ok with that. i am who i am, and i'm happy with who i am and where i am. i don't need something to show off or someone to tell me that i'm a good person or whatever. i know that i'm not perfect, in fact i'm far from it. i wish that would pray more. i wish i were more faithful in my studies and devotion time. but i know that despite my shortcomings i can be happy with myself.

so after listening to a podcast of my old testament professor i'm wondering why i havne't been better about spending time in devotions or prayer lately. i don't know if it's because i don't think anything will come from it(because i know that God hears everything and acts when and how it's appropriate) or if i'm too busy(which is a lie, i spend more time on facebook than anything) or whatever my excuse is. dr. alterman said something that struck me and i know i need to listen to it a little more attentively than just for class.

"i may not be able to explain how prayer changes the world, but i know that prayer changes me"

i think prayer is indeed a lost art. people don't do it so much anymore. we live in a world of distractions. things are always pulling us away from what we need to be doing or thinking what we need to be thinking. i'm rereading the book "praise habit" by david crowder and he mentions that he read somewhere that if you do something for 21 consecutive days it becomes an involuntary habit by the end of that time. he started that off by picking up some random habit but then talks about how we never make habits out of good things. when we think of the word habit we automatically think of something bad, why don't we ever think of good habits we have? it's sad but we always focus on the negative rather than the positive. if only our culture were a little different and worried about the good thigns that people bring to the table instead of the things that either annoy us or we think is wrong with them. lets try for making some of those good habits why don't we? even those silly things like getting to bed early, putting dishes away, smiling at a stranger when they say hi.


kings of leon: use somebody
stevie wonder: i just called to say i love you(or whatever the name of the song is, you know it)
mewithoutyou: in a sweater poorly knit
damien rice: delicate( i know i repeat alot of these songs, like i said, i'm fairly simple to please)
deathcab for cutie: i will follow you into the dark
goo goo dolls: name
the swell season: low rising
30 seconds to mars: kings and queens