Stuck in a rut

This morning I had a moment that really told me that I'm stuck in a rut. I put my pants on. Well, that's normal and not rut-like behavior! The difference was I put my pants on prior to putting my socks on. That's not my normal behavior and I found out it feels wrong to put them on wrong. I found myself actually pausing in mid-operation with my brain screaming that something was wrong! This got me thinking about other things as well. Do we get in a rut with our prayer life? Is it the same prayers for the same people at the same time in the same order every day? Do we need to come up with some new thing to knock us out of the rut sometimes? Is that good or is the rut good for us? I like the rut most of the time...it's comfortable, it's known. But sometimes I think it's good to pull ourselves out of the rut and do things differently for a while...not to make a new rut, but just to give the rut a break and go down a different path for a bit.