Matthew 6:5-13 - Pray with simplicity

"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace."

I guess the hardest part of praying is to let it remain a normal conversation, simply between you and God. Casual. We hear all these beautifully planned and presented prayers all the time, it makes us think that praying needs to sound like a convincing speech.

But even during private prayers, and everything's casual and toned down, it's still not right. It's so hard to keep the focus on God rather than ourselves. That's not a normal conversation... because who constantly talks about themselves with others? It just makes no sense.

Prayer is just a simple conversation between us and God, just because He's ablaze in beauty, we seem to always want to make our words sound relatively beautiful.