In one of her meditations Amy Carmichael answers this question: “There is so much to do.  Why set aside so much time just to pray?”   This is a question we all deal with.  We can have so many demands on our time, some very urgent.  Sometimes we find ourselves not praying because we have so much to do.  Amy’s answer gives pause for thought, and remember this comes from a woman who was a “mother” to many orphans–not exactly a woman with time on her hands:

The certain knowledge that the suggestion that prayer is waste of time is Satan’s lie; he is much more afraid of our prayer than of our work.  (This is proved by the immense difficulties we always find when we set ourselves to pray.  They are much greater than those we meet when we set ourselves to work.)