Letter to God

Dear God,

I have an issue with prayer. I'm intimidated by it. I know its just supposed to be me talking to you, but I typically tend to feel like I don’t know what to say, and even if I knew what to say, you'd already know it anyway. I mean really, how am I supposed to tell you what's on my heart and on my mind if you already know? And almost any kind of prayer eventually turns into a laundry list of what I'd like you to do, either do for me, give to me, work out for me, do for someone else, make me understand or whatever, and I'm just so certain to the very core of my being that I'm not supposed to pray like that. And then I look at the scripture in Matthew where "the lord's prayer" is written, and it just feels so formulaic… it might as well be Mad Libs...

"Dear God, You are so (insert adjective) that you (verb) my heart mind and soul. Please give me (noun), (another noun), and (one more noun), while I promise not to (bad verb) and try very hard to (pleasing verb.) All this I pray with (name of strong emotion) because like I said, you are (intense adjective)!!! Love, (state my name) Amen

Can you possibly help me with this? Kthxbai,
-----------chris


p.s. Any chance of advance information on who wins the superbowl? No??? Yeah… that's okay… I kinda figured