prayer of the heart

So there's a joke/saying around the house of prayer that while we - as his dearly beloved children - should be praying for the Lord to "open the eyes of our understanding and let us see the Godman Jesus as beautiful and glorious" (you get the point...something like that) that really all we are praying are little prayers like...
"Lord, I want an ipod!"

Well, here's my prayer slightly the same and very weak indeed:
"Lord, I don't want an ipod.... I want an i P H O N E ."


Honestly I do want one. However to get to the matter of this silly little post I have been reading Colossians 3:1-3 about the setting my mind on things above and not things in this world. Which has always gotten me somewhere in the heart that I can't quite pin point. I truly want God to become the most fascinating thing in my life but often I am more concerned about what is in front of my nose. I've been asking myself lately what I want out of life. For real what do I want? What do I desire? I've been praying that God would make it Him.
Okay that's it...I'm changing my prayer. Lord, I do want an iphone, but honestly more than an iphone I want to live my life (all of it forever and ever and ever) seeking you out and knowing who you are."

Amen.