…that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (p. 96). AA World Services, Inc. Kindle Edition.

Luke 11:1  One day Jesus was praying in a certain place.
When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “
Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
The simple prayer was to “Father” and began “Holy be
your   name, not I think, a request but a statement of fact.
You and your name are holy. Have your   way with everything.
Give me what I need but not more, one day at a time.
Forgive me my sins and teach me the freedom of
forgiving wrongs done me and free me from temptation.
Prayer, then, is as simple as talking  to dear friend.