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Devotion detours and the need for diligence

You must devote yourself to prayer with an open mind and a grateful heart. What are you devoted to? What gets the most of your time and attention? We should devote ourselves to our walk in our faith and devotion to prayer and service. We get so sidetracked - you know those detours - lost sometimes, even that we forget where we're going.  It's easy to do. Somehow each of us needs a daily reminder, the daily devotion, that allows us to remember what we should be doing. At times, we can each be the prodigal.  I remember the first time I read the story.  Asking myself if I possibly had ever been - or even currently was - a prodigal, I realized that each day we are all the prodigal.  In life, we are struggling on each step of our journey.............struggling for truth, direction, confidence, patience, faith...........the list is endless.  So much negative talk enters into our path, and we soon find ourselves on a horribly destruction detour. ...