Just try it

"I don't know how to pray."
"You know how you are talking to me? You just talk to Him. He loves to hear your prayers."

So simple. Why do we over-complicate things as adults?

Talk to Him. He wants to hear your thoughts. He doesn't care about your grammar or whether you can even get a full sentence out through sobs. He wants to be with you. WITH you. It's your communion with Him that He desires. It's the nature of your heart that is important to Him. When you are washing dishes or filling out the report at work, or changing a diaper, or driving to school, or watching the news, or studying for a test.

If I only ever came to you and asked you to do things for me, we wouldn't have a great friendship. He already knows how you work and what you are thinking, but he wants you to want to share them with Him. I absolutely love when Sweetness starts off her stories with "Momma, I want to tell you sumpen". She crawls in my lap and tell me the adventures she had at school, or the people who were mean to her, or the fun things she accomplished. I want to be a part of her world. I want to be the one she confides in.

God desperately desires friendship with you. He doesn't want it because He needs it, because God isn't lacking in anything. However, He loves you more than you can possibly imagine. He wants you to crawl in His lap, sit at His feet, run to Him, laugh with Him. He wants to hear your adventures, hold you while you cry, and hear you express what makes your heart beat. He desires to celebrate with you, shower you with gifts, and fill you with more love, peace, compassion, joy, patience and fiery passion so that you are overflowing and don't know what to do with the excess. Then He wants to talk with you casually as you go about your day and show you the people that need that excess of love that you are overflowing with. He wants to bless and He wants you to bless others.

This all starts with just talking to Him. Don't complicate it. He loves you. He wants to hear from you. He wants to hear your voice. He thinks you are beautiful, talented, smart, important, and so worthy of His attention.

Talk to Him. Simply, talk to Him.
Try it. Try talking to Him without asking Him for anything. Try just saying thank you. Try listening for His voice. Try sitting and just thinking about all the ways you love someone and multiplying that by 3 billion and try to accept that He loves you more than that.

Just try it.