"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him."
3 Nephi 13:7-8
I think that "vain repetitions" probably includes anything that we say in a prayer (including the example prayer that Christ offers) that we're just saying out of habit and not out of sincerity and real feeling. As with any relationship, if we just brush off our conversations with the same old things and are insincere, that relationship is going to suffer.
Today, let's remember that when we talk to God, we really need to be communicating rather than just checking a task off the list. :) God loves us and he wants to hear what we sincerely feel and think, and he wants to teach us how to be better... but none of that works if we aren't really present and listening, participating in the conversation. Let's do our best to keep those communication channels open and really listen to what God wants, because as it says, he probably knows better than we do what we need.
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