I have come to the conclusion that prayer is a life-long process that evolves over time. None of us awakens one day and says okay I finally figured out this prayer thing. It is more a time of questioning and trying to ascertain how we should pray to God.
One of the traits I have noticed about people, myself included, is that we have a curious nature that seeks to learn about the world around us; especially as it relates to others. Initially, it is about looking for things in common. If we find enough we like about someone, we begin to recognize differences by accident or on purpose. When we have satisfied our curiosity, we make a decision to continue in relationship with someone or to go elsewhere.
In mid1975 I was hired by a national wholesale nursery company as a regional salesman to represent them in the new territory of southern California and Nevada and all of Arizona. In addition, I would continue to handle their firm’s public relations. I closed my public relations/advertising agency and my wife and I sold our home and moved our family of four children under the age of seven from the Chicago area to Southern California.
About every five years or so there is a knock at our front door usually by two young men each nicely dressed in a white shirt, tie, dark colored pants and suspenders. They always have smile on their face, some pamphlets in their hands and sometimes a bible. They introduce themselves by name and tell us they are from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
