Do you ever feel this way...tell us about it I love patchouli…and there are days that I wake up to be thinking shower or patchouli…and most of those days patchouli wins…please don’t think that I am this big, smelly and dirty guy that NEVER showers…but man I hate showers and there are better things to do with my time…I feel that I might of fit in with the dirty hippies of the 60’s…but one thing that I do love about showers is the feel of clean underwear being put on my clean body…now that feeling makes taking a shower worth it… OK…OK…that is enough of me talking about me showering and being clean or dirty…But my spiritual life is a lot like my shower habits…I find myself waking up and thinking devotions and prayer or just a quick ya God…and most days the ya God wins…I don’t know why I choose not to spend five or ten minutes focusing on God…but I feel like I have better things to do with my time…I must admit I don’t fit into the family of God…but it has to do with my lack…It is like when you leave for college (not talking about a college an hour away but in a different time zone) and at Thanksgiving break when you are at home ever thing has change all your friend and family are different…there this strange quite and uneasiness of time try to get back to where you where before you left…this is how I feel about me and God…you see there has been time that “God has been closer then my skin” and then there are time that He is farther then the east is from the west…their only one to blame for this…and dammit I am an adult and I have to put it on that one person and only that one person…and it is me…I am where I am at because I don’t know who to manage my time (or I don’t want to)…I need to stop letting the little things take my focus away… And when waking up and spend time with God and His word it is like putting on that clean underwear after taking a shower…it will be worth it…I let you all know how things will be going as time goes by…

Good thought! I know exactly what you mean. I often find myself looking for a "quick fix" with God rather than spending the time with Him that I know I need to be. It's funny you mention showers because I also often find that the shower is the best place to talk to God. It's just me and Him...no distractions...even if it is only 15 minutes, it's longer than the 5 minutes (or none at all) that I would have spent in His presence that day. God can show up anywhere...even in the shower. :P

"I'll never leave you or forsake you"so we can pray anytime and anywhere,He said he would be with us always.As old as I am I still have a hard time taking that quiet time alone with God,but I find myself praying to him where ever I'm at.Don't feel guilty because you don't spend as much time with God as others do, just make the time you do spend with him real,because you want to not because you feel you have to.

this was said to I from a Pastor i once knew he told me that "I shouldn't have to pray long but I shouldn't go long with out praying" And I for some strange reason seem to always remember that and when ever I can never a set time or for a set amount of time just feel the need i pray and just share my time with him.

[b]srose26 wrote:[/b] [quote]Do you ever feel this way...tell us about it I love patchouli…and there are days that I wake up to be thinking shower or patchouli…and most of those days patchouli wins…please don’t think that I am this big, smelly and dirty guy that NEVER showers…but man I hate showers and there are better things to do with my time…I feel that I might of fit in with the dirty hippies of the 60’s…but one thing that I do love about showers is the feel of clean underwear being put on my clean body…now that feeling makes taking a shower worth it… OK…OK…that is enough of me talking about me showering and being clean or dirty…But my spiritual life is a lot like my shower habits…I find myself waking up and thinking devotions and prayer or just a quick ya God…and most days the ya God wins…I don’t know why I choose not to spend five or ten minutes focusing on God…but I feel like I have better things to do with my time…I must admit I don’t fit into the family of God…but it has to do with my lack…It is like when you leave for college (not talking about a college an hour away but in a different time zone) and at Thanksgiving break when you are at home ever thing has change all your friend and family are different…there this strange quite and uneasiness of time try to get back to where you where before you left…this is how I feel about me and God…you see there has been time that “God has been closer then my skin” and then there are time that He is farther then the east is from the west…their only one to blame for this…and dammit I am an adult and I have to put it on that one person and only that one person…and it is me…I am where I am at because I don’t know who to manage my time (or I don’t want to)…I need to stop letting the little things take my focus away… And when waking up and spend time with God and His word it is like putting on that clean underwear after taking a shower…it will be worth it…I let you all know how things will be going as time goes by…[/quote] I used to be in prison ministry and one of the Pastor's that taught it basically was sharing the time concept to the guys there one night. He was explaining that, that was all they had was time. That they needed to use the time in their lives wisely. That since they have nothing but time in prison, they needed to learn how to use it, doing the time. So when their time is up there in prison, they would know how to use the time they had in Prison to make them better, Godly people outside of Prison. We all need to use our time better and we need to understand that we are in God's time, not our own.