{"id":13244,"date":"2020-09-29T04:59:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2020-09-29T04:59:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:59:05","slug":"my-healing-and-praying-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"My Healing and Praying Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

See this pool. It is my daily (except Sunday) place of therapy for my mind, spirit, and body. The aggressive daily 3-mile walking marathons took their toll on this young body, so my new plan of action takes me to the pool. Thankfully, I\u2019m able to swim laps — great therapy and the aching legs are so much better. We are under strict Covid guidelines, but it is working well. Only five of us can be in the pool at any one time and we must sign up for the time slots we want. It is working well for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praying while swimming is not so easy because I must be so intentional with staying in my lane, staying in proper form, breathing, etc. But I came up with a solution. I try to get in 10 laps before stopping to do some water aerobics, then 10 more laps, more aerobics and then 10 more laps \u2013 30 in total. But, I was losing count on my laps. So I came up with a way to pray and count. I repeat this prayer: Lap one & two \u2013 \u201cLord, I praise YOU\u201d over and over for the two laps; Three & four \u2013 \u201cLord, I desire MORE (of You)\u201d; Five & six \u2013 \u201cLord, please FIX me (my wrong thinking, acting, etc. \u2013 my repentance); Seven & eight \u2013 \u201cI lay aside the WEIGHTS (the pressures, the burdens, the fears); Nine & ten \u2013 \u201cLord, I\u2019m going for the WIN (to finish my race strong). Praying those little repetitions not only keeps me on point in my laps, but I\u2019m intentionally praying.

Do you have a place of prayer or way of prayer that works well for you? I’ve found that the space and place to pray isn\u2019t near as important as having an ongoing conversation with God no matter where we are. Most important is my inner space where I can more easily access God throughout my day. Where and when we pray, what our prayer space looks like and the materials we use that help us in our prayer life often overwhelms us. We think we have to be in a particular state of mind and a particular state of being. We have formalized our time with God (yes, it\u2019s important to have times when we are not distracted from our one-on-one, set-aside time to be fully present to God).

But, I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m not restricted to place, space, and time when it comes to my conversations with God. We have time together in my car, while shopping, doing housework and office work and in meetings with others. I heard a minister say I don\u2019t pray for more than fifteen minutes at a time, but I don\u2019t go fifteen minutes without praying. Praying is acknowledging God at all times. \u201cTrust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In ALL YOUR WAYS, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.\u201d (Proverbs 3:5,6) THAT, is living and abiding with our best friend daily. He walks with us, talks with us and assures us we are His own. Perhaps that\u2019s what He wants from us \u2013 to walk (and swim) with Him, talk with Him and tell Him how much He means to us and out of that prayer relationship \u2013 we\u2019ll see answers to our prayers just because that\u2019s the way fathers want to bless their kids \u2013 out of that relationship we have with them.

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See this pool. It is my daily (except Sunday) place of therapy for my mind, spirit, and body. The aggressive daily 3-mile walking marathons took their toll on this young body, so my new plan of action takes me to the pool. Thankfully, I\u2019m able to swim laps — great therapy and the aching legs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13247,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}