Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prayers for All Occasions: Companion to Prayers New and Old
The reasons for this are various, but there is one in particular which is undoubtedly common. Here is a personal note from one who had found out where his own trouble lay.
I knew that my prayer life was not what it should be. My prayers were loose, haphazard, unarranged. More often than not, I felt the need of forgiveness for the casualness and insincerity of my praying. And then one day I found where the trouble lay. It was just that I was not going the right way about it. My prayers were not properly ordered: I had not given any thought to them before I got on my knees. I was not making of my prayers a solemn and deliberate act of worship.
There are, of course, times in everyone's life when prayer cannot wait to be organized: moments when prayer is the anguished utterance of a break ing heart, or the formless cry of the soul for grace and courage to live through the next twenty-four hours. No plan of prayer will serve then. But nor mally pe0p1e do need a plan, a method of devotion; they need to have a clear idea both of what they are going to pray for and of what order their prayers will follow: what shall come first, and so forth. They also need prayers ready to hand from which they can make a sort of cycle of prayer for a week or a month, so they will not be repeating the same prayers day after day until they have be come monotonous, and perhaps unreal.
It is hoped that this book of Prayers For All Occasions will help to meet this personal need, and also provide material for use in prayer groups and occasional evening services in Church.
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