Prayer vs Adorataion

Prayer vs Adorataion

Prayer versus Adoration

Many people around the world worship God or some form of a higher spiritual presence.   They do this via pilgrimages, following rituals, ceremonies, or just thinking about God.   A great volume of people will also say they deeply worship God, they love God and they adore God.   Many people express this love and worship through prayer, but what is prayer?   The truth is, prayer is whatever one wants it to be.   It can be a devout petition or spiritual communion to god or just a sequence of words directed towards god.   One may begin to ask many questions such as why and how one prays.   Is prayer just a form of adoration and paying honor to a divine being?   In Einhard’s text, Life of Charlemagne, he along with others claimed there is a difference between praying and adoring, and there definitely is.
There are still many people who think that one can pray incorrectly or for the wrong reasons, just as the blessed apostles James and Paul had stated “You ask and you receive not, because you ask wrongly” (Life of Charlemagne 2, p.171).   Some people do not pray because they think they do not know how too or that they are praying for the wrong reasons. “it is not surprising that our prayer is not heard or that what we desired to secure is not obtained”(Life of Charlemagne 2, p.171).   They find this to be unsurprising since they are asking for things they shouldn’t ask for.   People thought that they were praying incorrectly because ever since the time of the apostles, people have been told they are praying wrong.   There is no such thing as praying wrong; it is all about what one believes in.  
Einhard shared with the reader that our Lord Jesus Christ never “taught or commanded prayer to himself…he advises to pray to the father”(Life of Charlemagne 2 p.171).   This meaning that one’s prayers should always be directed to the father.   The question then arises that if one is to pray to the Father, when does one pray to the...