Commitment

And so we take it slow, step by step, pause by pause; our promises match not up to our commitment for our intentions tossed aside with the slightest inclining of exhaustion, distraction or anxiety.  Unexperienced emotion, words without thought, intentions without motivation; that which we do measures not with our spoken intention.  A longing for a connection, a need for a bond, the unquestioned knowledge of a loving and committed God these, among others, fall by the wayside as empathy is replaced by apathy, desires override commitment, and in motion supersedes motivated action.  The forgotten art of listening has become the downfall of humanity as interests in gratification, self indulgence, and entitlement take center stage.  Going through the motions now the norm as a patronizing please to signify a completion.  This trickle down of uninspired action invades our every action; lifeless as they may seem.  Prayer has become a casualty of such action, or lack there of.  With what words do we pray, with what inspiration do we listen, with what motivation do we freely enter into a silence that we may be changed by such a stillness?  The motions of prayer, why are they motions, where is the emotion, where is the humility?  Though we profess commitment, do we commit to the silence of the moment and listen to the wordless words of the heart?  Do we rattle the prayers committed to memory just to say we prayed?  Why do we run as we do?  Why do we babble as we do?  May our commitment be acts of commitment for with commitment comes stumbling, comes exhaustion, comes doubt yet it is our attention to such that makes our commitment real.  Inspired by faith, our commitment to prayer needs to be a true commitment not just a verbal slur reconciling the verbiage of a promise.  Faith inspires action: actions of love, actions of hope, actions of commitment to understanding our purpose, understand our relationship with the Father which is strengthened via prayer.  Our prayers must surpass the mindless motion and move toward desire for it is desire which motives action and action grounded in purpose yields  commitment.  Committed we must become that we may fully enter into a prayerful relationship with the Father and render our actions motives by growth, by gratitude, by faith.  To what are our intentions committed: to God or to completion?