One Biblical injunction that faithful people sometimes struggle with is the command to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). ‘How is this possible?’, they ask. I think most would agree that to spend the whole of one’s life praying aloud to God is not the message of this scripture, for it would be an impossibility. Even if one were to attempt it, all that would be needed to break its fulfilment would be a momentary distraction! So, we are led to ask: what does this scripture mean, and how can it be fulfilled? Let me apply some psychological wisdom to suggest a way in which we may honour this command and live a life of prayer. This approach takes our focus away from behaviour to the attitudes behind it. Behaviour must necessarily take many different forms. At one moment we may be eating breakfast, at another walking out of the house, and yet another, looking at a computer screen, and so on. But attitudes tend to be more constant. In fact, we may choose to maintain an attitude for the whole of our life. Like behaviour, attitudes vary. Someone might be said to have a selfish attitude, another a helpful attitude, yet another, a forgiving attitude. Do you see that an attitude of prayer, like any attitude, is something that continues 24/7? To live in an attitude of prayer is perfectly possible, and after we have practised this for a little while, we begin to pray unconsciously and automatically from our heart, fulfilling the command, for this is what happens when any thought or action is regularly practised.