A brand-new year is coming in just more than a month. We are so close to bidding farewell
to our past mistakes and negative thoughts behind. It’s that time to make things anew and renew
ourselves to a better and brighter future. It’s the time of the year when we come into full
retrospection and reevaluation of the choices, we made this year and start writing down our
plans and goals for the days, weeks and months ahead. In the third book of Nephi chapter 18
verses fifteen, twenty-one and twenty-two, it was mentioned that we must pray always. To pray
is easy but to pray always is something that a true disciple of Jesus Christ would do.
Praying is the only way we can communicate with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
personally and doing it not only often but always will help us draw closer to Them. In those verses,
I think that always does not only mean that every single moment in our lives but rather in every
step that we take with our sincere and humble hearts, we must pray and talk to them always.
Because that is how our lives will become more guided. That if we will be watchful in everything
that we do, say, and think, and that if we always pray unto Him, we will have the strength to
resist temptations and overcome Satan’s power.
Heaven may seem far away, but it feels closer once we pray and that is one of the most
comforting truths I have ever learned. It is the only way that we can access the powers of heaven.
Each time we earnestly pray and think of Him, we will have the blessings, guidance, protection,
support and comfort we need to face the difficult trials and challenges in life. I believe that as we
strive to always (with our whole hearts) pray unto Heavenly Father, we will have a deeper
appreciation on the conversations we are having with Him.