...when we venture into prayer, every word may, at any moment, come to mean just what it means and involve us with a holy God who wills our holiness.  All we had counted on was some religious small talk, a little numinous gossip, and we are suddenly involved, without intending it and without having calculated the consequences, in something eternal...

We want life on our conditions, not on God's conditions.  Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions.  Be slow to pray.  Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.  And when we realize what is going on, it is often too late to go back.  Be slow to pray. (Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles)

Advent...purported to be a season of prayer, preparation, and waiting.  I hope you are avoiding prayer with your busy schedule.  I am trying to.  Being involved in something eternal...getting us to what God wants...do we really want to go there this Advent season?