"...He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed." Mark 1:35
I found a very good place to pray and focus on the Lord and to reflect on eternity. It is the graveyard! There you don't have any temptations thrown at you while praying. It is a very sobering place and it makes you want to pray to the Lord that your life would count for eternity and that it would not be wasted. It makes you pray like David for God to do great things in your life while you are alive for David said to the Lord in Psalm 6:5 "...In the grave who shall give You thanks?". And as Hezekiah told the Lord in Isaiah 38:18-19 that "Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth. The living, the living man, he shall praise You..."
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