Prayer Challenge

Dallas Willard says that prayer is the conversation we have with God about what we're doing together.
He tells of going to a workshop led by Agnes Sanford.  Sanford asks participants to engage in the following exercise over the three day workshop:

            "I want you to choose something that you are going to pray for for the next three days.
             It doesn't matter what it is:something that you're concerned about, and you want to
             take up with God for three days."

When I read Agnes Sandord's challenge many concerns rolled through my head: concerns of my family, a variety of national situations, concerns among the members of the congregation I serve as a pastor, the two wars we are presently fighting, the devestating oil spill in the Gulf, anxieties over the future and my own personal concerns for the future, the nature of my leadership for the congregation, my need to develop a richer and more fulfilling prayer life in general.

To pick one of these does not mean I cease to pray for the rest of these concerns.  But as I pondered the concerns on my plate, I became aware that the deepest need I have is to trust that God is present and active in these situations already.  Complicating this need is the way I go about my prayer life.  I do it on the run except for a brief time when I sit in silence.

In other words, my issue to talk over with God is our hit and miss communications and brief conversaton times.  My prayer life is like passing a friend in the school hall way and waving.  Not much depth to the conversation at all.

So what about you?  How would you describe your conversaton moments with God over the things you are doing together?