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TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

Taylor, Texas

A SIMPLE WAY TO PRAYMartin Luther was asked by his barber, Peter Beskendorf, for some guidance on prayer. So he wrote the following words of wisdom in response. Dear Master Peter, I give you the best I have; I tell you how I myself pray. May our Lord God grant you and everyone to do better! Amen. First, whenever I feel that I have grown cold and disinclined to pray, because of other tasks and thoughts (for the flesh and the devil always prevent and hinder prayer), I take my little Psalter, hasten into my room... and begin to say the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and then, if I have time, some words of Christ, Paul, or the Psalms, saying them quietly to myself just as children do. Therefore, it is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening. Guard yourself carefully against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering: Wait awhile. In an hour or so I will pray. I must finish this or that. Thinking such thoughts, we get away from prayer into business that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught. ... Now when the heart has been warmed by this recitation of the Ten Commandments, the Creed, etc., then kneel down or stand with folded hands... and pray the "Our Father" word for word...