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What have you been daydreaming about lately? Or, perhaps more to the point, what do you tend to look forward to after a long day of work?

At this time of year, we’re usually about a month into baseball season, which means my honest answer would have to include catching a few innings of a ballgame once the kids are in bed. But even with one fewer thing to distract me, I’ll still admit that it’s an ongoing project to keep God’s Word, His character, and His praise-worthiness at the forefront of my mind and heart.

At this stage of the game, the Internet is starting to pop a bit with speculations and predictions about what might change about our lives if (and when!) we emerge from COVID-19 exile. Will online shopping replace many brick-and-mortar stores once and for all? What about movie theaters? Even the future of the handshake is now questionable, depending on which expert is speaking when.

But as the musical geniuses who wrote “Frozen II” so often remind us, some things never change. Plenty of things might make that list in a temporal sense, but isn’t it comforting to know that our God and His Word will never change?

As we consider how to make the best use of our current season, I’ve got a question for you: How is your prayer life right now?

Too many times, our prayer life is stale, lame, and meager because we’re missing the larger context of the world and our Father’s work in it. Amid our responsibilities, routines, and sheer scheduling of life, prayer seems to be the one “activity” we leave for another day. Rather than taking advantage of the direct line we have to the very throne room of God our Father, we try to soldier on through one more day on our own.

The mere fact that on virtually every page of Scripture we can find either someone—including Jesus himself—praying, or believers being invited, urged, and instructed on how and why to pray tells us that prayer is not an optional piece to the Christian life.