I have four little kids now, and one of the things about being a father, I think, is that it changes the way you understand God. It changes the way you understand God's love for us. You realize that as a father, you just love being with them. It doesn't matter what you're doing. You just love being with them. My little boy, Walter, he'll come into my office at home and say, "You know, Daddy, I need to have a meeting." So he'll come in my office at home, he'll get up in his little chair, and he'll have his meeting. And he'll just talk about different things, what's happening in his day, or some question he's thinking about, or. It's just a delightful thing. Scriptures talk about how God delights in being with us. Just delights in being with us. He just delights. And God delights in talking to us. He delights in conversation. He delights in prayer. Because it is that conversation between a child and his father. It's a tremendously beautiful thing. So while we need a specific time in our day where we just have a few minutes of prayer, we have this great need just to be in spontaneous conversation with God. And he will share his delight with us the more we recognize his presence in the day and just communicate with him.
