Prayer ought to be as regular as breathing, and as natural. Just as our health improves as we learn to breathe more deeply, so . . .

our spiritual health does as we pray more deeply. Deep breathing excercies ensure that all the capacity of the lungs is being fully used. The circulation is cleared of waste. Clean pure life is drawn into the cells of the brain. So, too, we pray, as regularly as breathing, with the mind always aware of God, reaching out for Him, casting out the waste, the impure, the unworthy, all indeed that is not of Him, taking in with the desire of the "hart panting after the waterbrook", all that He would feed to us of His Word, His Love, His forgiveness, His power, His purposes. Such prayer is a free and constant stretching out for God, beyond the "now" into the promised "yet to be".