“Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of
creation.
Jaques
Ellul
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always
been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of
dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world
as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be.
And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.
Jacques
Ellul
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Prayer
is
it is the cry of the heart for connection
it is reaching out
in a world of uncertainty
in the midst of division and strife
as the bond of affection are torn
to the One who draws all together
in a peaceable kin_dom
it is a longing for communion
put into wordless pleas
tendrils of connection
binding us in Love
to a God who is relationship personified
unity in diversity
three so united as to be one
division blurred, diminished
destroyed
it is the energy of the Sacred
the power of love
being sent to others
who ill, or distraught
angry, fearful, alienated, divided
need
love, hope, joy, and peace
it is sent out to friends
to strangers
to enemies
focused love
drawing together that which has been torn
and shattered
drawing together the scattered
it is not command or insistence
it is plea
it is the Spirit speaking for us the words we cannot find
it is we frail creatures
joining together to send compassion, concern,
caring and love
to other frail creatures
us making waves
us disturbing the certainty of a stolid world
breaking things open
becoming free
creating newness
prayer
is
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