We are all too familiar with situations when boredom strikes. We’ve all been there: long distance commuting, flying to another city, or being trapped in the middle of heavy traffic, etc. Many of us today usually turn to our electronic gadgets for diversion or any other form of preoccupation.
However, for any reason we can also literally get caught anytime in any of the same scenarios above but without any help otherwise. In that case, we become helpless with boredom until things turn around favorably later. We forget to consider how much time would have been idly wasted.
Fortunately, we can still make good use of that idleness. We can make it meaningful by praying for whatever intentions we have. We can either pray for forgiveness, thanksgiving, praise, intercession or graciously for personal intentions. We always have the option to do that and it makes more sense than just wait lazily.
Attaining any of our intention by making use of our belief in prayers is productive in a spiritual sense, especially in the least likely situation. It’s better than setting aside prayer time to certain schedules, which we oftentimes fail to fulfill. It is one worthwhile time filler because we never know some things heavenly may already be at work as a result of that prayerful respite.
