Look closely at this picture…

See many kids in it?

Nope…

The picture is full of adults…

Adults sitting…

Oh… Someone just stood up…

But only to shake the hand of a newcomer…

Now they’re both sitting down.

Kids are nowhere to be seen…

It’s not that there aren’t any kids.

It’s just that they are moving too fast to be caught by the camera.

Kids make up reasons to move…

“Race you to that tree…”

“First one to the top of the hill is the winner!”

We sit watching and ask, “Where do they get all the energy?”

We shift in our soft chair and say, “I get tired just looking at them.”

We adults spend a lot of time sitting.

Kids spend a lot of time moving…

We sit…

To read

To rest

To talk

We sit in comfortable chairs…

To eat…

To work…

To talk.

Is it the same with our prayers?

We sit and bow our heads to pray…

Because we pray with words.

Sometimes we say prayer is moving because its words touch our hearts.

But is there more to a moving prayer than words?

Perhaps a truly moving prayer is one that causes us to move…

Move to love God…

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Mark 12:30

Move to love others…

‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”  Mark 12:31

Pray…

Then move…

Move forward in faith…

Or simply move…

And offer the movement itself  as a prayer to God…

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men… Colossians 3:2

That’s a moving prayer …

A prayer that will move the heart of God …

A prayer that will change world…

Note: An earlier version of this post first appeared in July, 2015