In the 80’s, the rapper M.C. Hammer sang 'You got to pray just to make it today'. The habit of prayer is about more than surviving a day, its about building a rich life in and with God.There is a sense in which you are your habits; you are those things that you do repeatedly. A habit is an automated behaviour that we repeat over and over again in the same context or environment and that run in our...

As I think back and reflect on my childhood, I’m deeply grateful to my parents who instilled in me some core life habits that have remained with me to this day. One of those is eating food. I don’t even remember when my parents taught me this is a good thing, but this habit is still with me. Remarkably, I rarely if ever go through a day and forget to eat food.Another core life habit my parents tau...

When I was nine years old my family moved to a new town. We were Christians, and so we began that strange process of looking for a new local church that would become our spiritual home and be our spiritual family.We visited one church, and during the service – it was a very traditional, highly liturgical service – the pastor prayed a short 3-4 sentence prayer as part of the liturgy. My little 9-ye...