It is a Sunday morning in 1985 and my heavily pregnant wife struggles to clothe our two young daughters for church. In the midst of all the hustle and bustle there hardly seems to be a moment for prayer. Does this sound familiar to you? Well it was certainly a weekly occurrence at our house. In reading my devotional message this morning, Pastor E.M. Bounds wrote about how pastors should prepare themselves to preach and how we, as lay persons, should prepare ourselves for worship. He spoke of the parable of the sower and how preparing the ground allows the seed to germinate, and how unprepared soil allows Satan to ruin the prospect of a bountiful crop. He is so right in this.