“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is
daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart
without words than words without a heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The function of
prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who
prays.”
Soren
Kierkegaard
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Prayer is not the
“art of the deal”
It is not a
matter of us calling out to all that is Sacred
Seeking to
manipulate
Whatever power
might be there
To do our will
Jesus made it
pretty clear
That God is God
Sacred is Sacred
“Thy will be
done”
Paul suggests
that when it comes to prayer
We suck
Really!
Not because we
cannot mouth the words
Not because we
cannot turn a phrase
But because we
have no clue how to pray (Romans 8)
Instead he
suggests that we let the Sacred in us, the Spirit
Pray for us
With “wordless
groans”
When prayer is
really prayer it is nothing more (or less)
Than a cry of the
heart
Prayer happens
when God awakens in us the longing to connect
The desire to be
filled
The hope for
healing, and forgiveness
Prayer is when
those things we cannot put into words
Wing their way
toward the Sacred
And when the love
of the Sacred finds its way back
Along the bridge
of prayer
To change our
minds
Our hearts
Our souls
And we are made
new
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