Prayer Walking

Some days the things I most need to pray about, I am way too anxious about to sit still and pray about. Thankfully, I don't always have to sit still in order to pray. One of the great traditions of the Christian faith is prayer walking. Prayer walking is a large genre of different kinds of prayer done while moving. One form of prayer walking is pilgrimage, another walking a labyrinth. While those are two very specific types of walking prayers, there are also examples of less structured prayer walking which can be helpful on a daily basis.

One way of prayer walking is by walking around a location which is the site of concern. If you're anxious about a work problem, then you can walk around your office space or work conference room praying about the situation. If you are having problems at home with a family member, walk around their room or the room in which you tend to fight and pray about the relationship. Many times communities do this in an organized way. When social issues crop up around schools or local governmental groups or so forth, prayer walks are created to walk into those spaces and pray for them. This brings prayer to the space and public recognition to the situation.

Movement tends to focus our thoughts in different ways than sitting still does. Sometimes the location allows us to see new things or situations from different perspectives which allow us to pray for them in new and different ways. What areas of your life need prayer? Walk in prayer, or invite someone to walk with you, with Christ, knowing that God is with you wherever you are.