Desire

When things are not going well in our spiritual or emotional life, we may have a desire to do something about it. We may have a desire to change the feeling or interior muck or boredom. Desire is just that. There is no action with desire. To desire to meditate is not meditation. Besides, why wait for desire or for an attraction to prayer.

Wake up and pray. No need for desire. Willingness is what will get us to pray even when there is no desire or even when we are bored by god stuff. Prayer is an act of the will in relationship with the Divine, the Mystical, The Mystery. You don't have to understand it, just do it. If there is a God, and I do believe there is someone besides me in this prayer, then God will do something with our action of prayer. Don't plan on what the results will be. Just do it. Why wait until you are way down the road to a bad day, before you pray? Pray when you are above water, in the boat of serenity or peace, not waiting until you are drowning and only then use pray as a life preserver.