If you build it, the time will follow, some how, in some way!

<h1>If you build it, the time will follow, some how, in some way!</h1>

<p align=right>by Theresa Twogood</p>

<div align=justify>Because we published and marketed, "The Call To Prayer And A Return To The Prayer Closet', ebook,we receive a lot of mail regarding prayer in general, especially during the holidays.However, because we also have a lot of home school families as our customers, most of the questions revolving around prayer are 'the time' issue. Now that we are almost through Lent and just about ready to celebrate Easter we thought the time was right for us to mention the following.<BR><BR>If you are not familar with 'The Call To Prayer' ebook and it's main message, allow us to summarize for you. The anonymous Christian author of this work states that we all, as a general rule, are experiencing God's Call To Prayer and are in need of a special place in our home to go and pray in peace and quiet. The author goes into greater details and even offers plans on how to create a prayer room or prayer closet in our homes out of unused space. Now, many of you begin to feel uneasy with such an idea and are in fear of what others would say if they saw that you had a special place to pray in your home. You fear being called 'overly religious', 'too Catholic' or just plain ole' goodie-two-shoes! "You used to be cool, but now...". Some of your fear is justified because of the over all climate regarding Christian prayer and spirtual growth. How many of you are aware of friends, family, even co-workers who are 'into' the new-age movemment and have a special place to practice meditation and 'centering'? If you don't know of at least a couple you are most likely in a smaller rural area. It is very popular nowadays to have meditation rooms, zen gardens and the like for reconnecting, 'centering', or 'grounding'. Special music, incense and even special clothing is the new norm for new age followers wanting and needing a place to unwind and enter into the presence of God. There is certainly nothing wrong with any of these new age attempts if that is where your heart is, except that the movement seems to make special conditions for it's followers but doesn't extend the same to Christians. In many circles it is okay to have a zen garden but not a Saint garden, a Luther Reflection garden, or a Rosary garden because that's way 'too religious' looking and sounding. It's okay and even 'kinda cool' to have a meditation room (or area in a room), but mention a prayer closet or a prayer chapel and you stand to receive some kidding, to say the least! If you are a Christian be proud of it! Don 't hide the fact and certainly don't be ashamed of it! Do you remember what Jesus said regarding this? He said, that if we claim him before men, he will claim us before our Heavenly Father. But, if we are ashamed of Him, hide Him and His message, He will do the same with regards to our Heavenly Father. The author states that he knows of no better way to be able to do all the things we each must do every day and still have a moment of quiet, prayer, and peaceful reflection than to have a small, out of the beaten path, room, closet whatever to pray in, do devotions in, some of our biggest home-school families report that they now do all their religious education inside their prayer room. <BR><BR><BR>So... Are you feeling pulled in many different directions? Have you made any Lenten promises of renewed spiritual life? Have you made promises to spend more time digging into the Holy Scriptures, and communicating with God? If you make the space available, some how, in some way the time always seems to follow. More than one family have reported that strange but true occurance. It's sort of like 'if you build it, they will come'! So there you have it. It's all up to you. <BR><BR><BR>Now our Easter gift to you if you read all of this article, we are offering you a gift for the holidays. As our Easter gift to you and your family, we want you to have a personal copy of 'The Call To Prayer And A Return To The Prayer Closet' e-book, if you will only promise to read it. No strings, no contracts or anything like that, and definitely no tests! We just want to know that if we extend this gift to you, that you will at least read it and allow it's message to sink in. That's it no other conditions apply. To claim your Easter copy with six bonus gifts simply visit the following link. You will need an unzipping program such as Winzip and Adobe Reader. Most computers come with both already installed. God Bless and have a wonderful Easter.<BR><BR>Click on this link or paste it into the browsers address bar: <BR><BR>http://tinyurl.com/y2qua3 </div>

<p align=center>Article source: <a href="http://www.ArticlePros.com/holidays-special-occasions/Easter/article-66701.html">ArticlePros.com</a></p>
 
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		<p align=justify>Theresa Twogood is Executive Director of OLIN e-Publishing Company- http://olin.tk -Denver Colorado.</p>
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