Jonathan Aitken's conversion occurred at a time when he wasexperiencing the pressures of political life, a public trial,pleading guilty to perjury, being divorced by his wife, going toprison, and returning to "normal" life. Amid all the pressure ofthose years, he was discipled in such a way that he learned thediscipline of daily prayer and kept extensive prayer journals. Itis from these that he mined the material for this book.
Essentially following the ACTS approach to prayer-Adoration,Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication-Aitken also adds an elementof contemplation: Our Relationship with God. His acronym, then, isACTORS, and his collection of prayers and reflections isaccordingly divided into five parts, all preceded by a narrative ofhis introduction to a life of prayer. "Since direct communicationwith God in prayer is surely the truest path for a spiritualjourney," writes Aitken, "my prayer is that this small book mayhelp others along that path."
