Review-Too Busy Not to Pray

Too Busy Not to Pray By Bill Hybels

This is an excellent book! It, as the title suggests, is all about prayer. It is not a fad style book promising to give you the secret code in which to pray a get everything you want. It instead discusses a relationship with God. Believe me while looking through the other library selections I found plenty of fad books. It is about discussion back and forth rather than a wish list.

This book is beautifully written and emphasizes the importance of having a close relationship with God. He mentioned a professor who talk about Jesus as if he had just had lunch with him. We are to not only worship our lord but allow a closeness to him.

He suggests having a special prayer place where you can go and be alone with God. Not the church, not somewhere fancy but somewhere just for you and God. This allows you to retreat and have a real heart to heart meeting and not let your busyness eliminate your prayer life. It made me wonder about my own prayer place. I hadn't ever thought to have one. It became obvious to me however since I always gravitated to having a sitting room of my very own. Hybels describes his prayer place as a corner in his office in which he had places things that aid him in his preparedness to prayer. I liked this idea greatly! For me I chose a smell. I have always been very into associating things to smells. The smell of the incenses at mass have always made me mindful of the spirit of The Lord. So this began my quick adventure to the mall with a few dollars in cash in my purse and now a small bottle of frankincense as myrrh oils. I am so glad I read this book. It has defiantly impacted me. This was a library book however I wouldn't be surprised if I end up buying a copy to read a few more times over the years.