6 wonderful inspiring tips for couples who want to pray together

Learning to pray together may take time.

Award-winning author and founder of the Woman to Woman Mentoring and About His Work Ministries, Janet Thompson, now understands what to tell couples when seeing them pray. By experience with her husband Dave, Thompson finds it enlightening, rewarding and binding to witness many other couples talking and taking their time with God wherever they are.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - However, not all couples practice praying together and many are adept to making praying a private, intimate, one-on-one time with God. But as bounded by love, trust and spirituality, many couples have begun to pray together, making their initial relationship stronger and more fruitful. Thompson shared some tips she found useful with Crosswalk.com and has written with the "Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents".

Here are six of her tips:

1. Priority for the day: praying together.

Yes. First, couples must make this commitment together a priority. This could be one of the best activities within the marriage, as both lay out everything with each other in the presence of God.

2. Determine a common time and best place for both of you.

While praying together, it is more comfortable if both are set and committed to the time and place. Prayers are best done unhurried and wholehearted -which can be disrupted if one isn't comfortable with the arrangement.

3. You can start with short prayers.

It can be a huge leap praying together. Until both are fully adept and committed with it, you can start with short prayers.

4. Take turns while praying.

Thompson wrote that one might not be good in praying out loud, but the other is. Have one of you start aloud and the other join in. Couples can also do some conventional prayers that they can take turns in saying as though they are just talking to each other.

5. Hold hands or embrace each other while praying.

It actually depends on you and how comfortable you are in this, but it is suggested that couples pray while holding hands or embracing each other. This can make you feel more committed as one in the eyes of God.

6. Just pour your heart.

Best prayers come from the depths of the heart. You're talking to God as your father and God, not reciting to an audience.

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