What Can I Do?

[504 words] “I do not feel as close to the Lord as I once did. I know that I do not study and pray as I once did. I want to be close to God again. What can I do?” We have all felt this way! We have awakened to find ourselves adrift from God. We become concerned and begin searching. “What can I do to be close to the Lord again? What has caused me to drift? If I can find out why I have drifted away, maybe I can reverse the process and more easily find my way back to God. What can I do?” When a brother or sister has shared this concern with me, I have noticed that it was almost always accompanied with this admission: “I know that I do not study and pray the way I once did.” Are we overlooking the obvious? I…