A shower or bathtub are simply great places to pray.
You’re alone, its quiet (there than the soothing sound of water falling or splashing in the tub), there are few discretions and if your prayers move you to tears, the water will just wash them away.
As I watched the water circling the drain, I thought how my bathtub prayer time can, at times, be similar to that water circling the drain.
There are times when I cry a fountain of tears, releasing the tension, as I cast my cares on the only one who can do something of worth with them.
There are bath prayer times when I haul out my list and go through it like a child with their Christmas wish list, continuing my wants and perceived needs, as though God is my great genie in the sky (or shower head, as the case may be).
There are also times when I unload my wants, my needs, and my cares, but then I keep holding onto them, spinning myself into a vortex, like the water circling the drain, into worry and anxiousness … over the things that I have little control over … I have little control over much!
Why do I want to spin that way? Why do I want to hold on to the worries that fill my heart and mind?
There are two things that I need to remember when this circling the drain happens:
- I need to share my worries with God, but also with another person. We all need the support of others who will listen to us, pray for us and even be the hands and feet of God to us.
- I need to remember that God, in me, makes me stronger and more capable than I could ever imagine. He makes me strong enough … not in my strength, but in his.
These words of Charles Spurgeon are also good reminders when I am circling the drain:
“There is neither in heaven nor earth nor hell anything that we need fear when we are once right with God. Settle the centre, and the circumference is secure”
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