{"id":10870,"date":"2021-09-20T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"praying-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10870","title":{"rendered":"PRAYING OUT LOUD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once started, habits occasionally have a way of evolving and growing. One morning habit I started with the new school year has done just that. And I am excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It started as an effort to use my 15 minute morning commute as a time for prayer instead of mindlessly listening to the radio. It wasn&#8217;t difficult to remember to pray each day when I got on the road, so the habit took root pretty quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week or two ago, I added a new twist: I started praying out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know why it had never occurred to me before &#8211; I am alone in the car, it is quiet, and I have time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years I have heard people advise praying out loud as a way to focus your mind and make the experience all that much more &#8230; real, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I can report that that is exactly what I have been experiencing recently; it feels like the beginning of a significant deepening of my prayer life. Time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funny how such a simple thing can make a significant difference in a significant pillar of our spiritual life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it&#8217;s not already a part of your prayer habits, give it a try. It might take a couple of days to get past any initial awkwardness, but keep going until you do. It will be worth it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once started, habits occasionally have a way of evolving and growing. One morning habit I started with the new school year has done just that. And I am excited.\u00a0 It started as an effort to use my 15 minute morning commute as a time for prayer instead of mindlessly listening to the radio. It wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10871,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions\/10871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}