CUP OF COMFORT: Mountain Prayers

“[Jesus] went up into the hills by himself to pray.

Night fell while he was there alone.”

Matthew 14:23

• I used to live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, with Pike’s Peak in plain view from my front door. At the end of a busy day, I’d often trek the quarter mile over to the middle school’s oval running track. There I would walk and pray. Sometimes I’d focus on the beautiful mountain peaks before me, or watch the clouds of a thunderstorm gathering above them, or observe the pinkish orange sunset taking shape as night would fall. Most of the time I walked all by myself. How special to walk with God this way! Yet I know that I can “walk” in the Spirit, and be prayerful, at any time and place. I need not go to the mountains or into a closet. The lifestyle of Jesus tells me that prayer is an attitude to cultivate, day in and day out, no matter where I am. I welcome the times of solitude, those precious moments when I am most receptive to God’s fellowship.

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