Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle had the talent to be the greatest baseball player of all time.  He was fast, could hit, hit for power, field and throw.  But in his first season with the Yankees baseball team he tripped on a drain pipe in the outfield and tore up his knee.  Knees were not fixed then the way they are now.  He was never the same.  He played in pain for the next 18 years in baseball.  Ted Williams might have been the greatest hitter, but he spent four of his prime years flying airplanes in war.  Stuff happens and it can set us back or upset our plans, or get in the way of some of our talents/gifts.

It is the same way with prayer.  Stuff happens and we don't prayer as we could or did.  The nice thing is that we can pick up again on prayer and learn from our time away, or our spiritual drought.  Nothing is wasted. We never have to be in a space where we would say, "I wish I had prayed more."  Spiritual gifts are not the same as physical gifts that are finite and become depleted or disappear with misuse or no use.  The spiritual is bottomless.  The past is past.  Today we can pray.  God is never diminished.  The relationship is never gone.  Just for today, be the best.