What is the greatest obstacle to prayer?  In my opinion, it is our ideas of who God is (or isn’t).  We so easily limit Him or distort His image.  At least, this is one of my primary battles. It is all too easy to impose our own ideas or our own experiences of our earthly fathers upon our image of God.  That, in fact, is idolatry.  The Catholic Catechism says: “God our Father transcends the categories of the created world.  To impose our own ideas in this area ‘upon him’ would be to fabricate idols to adore or pull down.  To pray to the Father is to enter into his mystery as he is and as the Son has revealed him to us.” (CCC 2779)

In what ways do you distort God and make Him into your own image?