From our "Living the Questions" Bible Study
- many people approach prayer in a way that makes God into a cosmic vending machine: insert prayer into slot, make your selection, and if you're good, Viola!
- many people perceive the Divine to be in the reward and punishment business, when prayers are not answered, people beat themselves up with guilt because they're obviously not good enough or faithful enough for God to answer in the affirmative.
- prayer is deeper than a "conversation" with the Divine, perhaps best understood as simply being open to the Divine.
- prayer is the testimony to humanity's striving toward a relationship with that unknowable yet inescapable sense of "the more".
- Pray as if everything depended on God, pray as if everything depended on you
Invitation to prayer:
- cut out two news articles and secure them in an area where you will see them often or near where you can carve out time for prayer.
- when praying with this news, pray only these two questions
- God of love, what would you have me learn?
- Merciful God, how can I offer you compassion?
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