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Empty words & Empty prayers.

Sometimes Christianity feels too cliche and you just don't want to bother talking about any of it.  All the phrases you would hear in the best selling church books to the same words you would hear in almost every prayer.  All the words feel so dead.  All the words spoken seem to carry no weight at all.  

 As I pray, there are times when I feel like I should just shut up and stop talking.  The words that come to my mind often feel like they are only repetitions of the past, regurgitations of what I have already heard, or they are just words that are just 'safe' and familiar to say.

But thank you God, for sending your spirit to intercede for us through wordless groans. Sometimes I feel like prayer should just be an acknowledgement, a submission to the intercession of the Spirit as we take time to just let Him pray for the things that we ought to pray for.  Not a passive submission but an active one.  A submission that listens so intently in the silence.  Giving full attention to the one and only God.  

But maybe I am just lazy and lack the expressive effort that may be needed for my prayers to feel as if they are carrying real weight. Not that I need to use super long complicated words or that it needs to be poetic, but the prayer needs to be more than a song on repeat. 
I guess you can compare it to the effort that goes into writing a song with deep lyrics  as compared to one that talks about lip gloss being poppin'.  I'm sure the songs with deep lyrics and greater meaning took a lot longer to write and weren't just thought up on the spot.

 Possibly its a combination of both.  A submission to the Spirit and a longer time of reflection on words for prayer.  Words that have deeper meaning and more weight than what I say by default or through habit.  Jesus be my help in this journey.   

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