I'm really bored of saying literally the same thing to God five times a day for the past 20 years. Why can't I pray in my own way?

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Boredom sucks all the juice out of spirituality. To find it again, you should look for beauty. Think about things that you find beautiful when praying. Perhaps a neat turn of phrase in scripture. Or a lovely place of worship. Or math. God is present in all these things. In all of everything actually.

More generally, your mind is not meant to be rigid and stuck when you are contemplating God. The words of structured prayer are intended to form a backdrop on which your mind can rest when it gets weary, not as a prison it can never escape from.

Loosen up some.