Public Prayer

 Why do some people appear pious on the outside but seem rather self-indulgent.  It may be because they pray publicly but not privately in silence and stillness.  If we are always talking in prayer then we don’t spend any time listening.  If you meditate, sit still, in silence, you just might get a Power within you to reveal a shortcoming to work on.  You might realize that you are self-indulgent.  Priests are told over and over that they have to do “mental” prayer as it is sometimes called, so that they work on the insides and not just the outsides.  Recovery people have to do more than look sober.