Month: August 2020

God love all prayer

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Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, droops on the little hands, little golden head; Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

Vespers by A. A. Milne

When I was a child I knelt every night at the side of my bed and said my prayers. Somewhere in the teen years this habit faded. I started worrying that I wasn’t praying properly. My pryaers became sporadic.

There is no right or wrong way to pray. Whether we do it formally together in church, by ourselves, or just talk to God as we go through the day, our prayers are still heard.

Prayer: Help me to learn that all of life is a prayer. But let me remember that time for intentional, concentrated prayer is important too.

Silence of the heart.

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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere….in the closing of a door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals. Mother Teresa in No Greater Love

My husband says he likes to hunt but I don’t remember him ever killing anything. He just likes to sit in the silence in the woods and observe God’s beautry around him. He communes with creation. Most of us just walk by a beauriful flower or miss the glorious sunset. We don’t know how to silence our hearts and see God’s beautiful world.

Prayer: Give us, Lord, the ability to find that silence of the heart. In its center let us learn about the needs of your world and act on those needs. AMEN

Trust

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One of the blogs I read is by https://mypastoralponderings.com/ from Rev. James Lawrence. Today he was talking about our ability to keep on worrying in spite of god’s promises to us. I reminded me of a talk on that subject I gave as part of a series I did on healing. We tend to want to carry everything ourselves. Not just our worries but our failings, our guilts, our pains. We turn it over to God and then we pick it back up. Put it down, pick it up, put it down.

Every day we empty those things into the trash and then grab the bag and drag it behind us. We move on and drag the bag…on and on and on. Somehow we need to learn that when we turn it loose it is gone. Really gone. Forever gone. God can handle our fears and worries. We just have to trust and believe it.

Forgiveness

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God does not stop loving us every time we do something wrong, and neither should we stop loving ourselves and each other for being less than perfect.

Harold Kushner in How Good Do We Have to Be?

We can be very angry when someone else makes a mistake. We even get angry at ourselves when we can’t do things the right way. We are hard on ourselves and others. We ostracize people, and turn others against them. We are not very forgiving. We may say “I forgive you” and still hold a grudge. We are not very kind.

If we ask God’s forgiveness he will forgive us. We have to believe that we are forgiven. Sometimes that is hard to accept. Also forgiving others requires work on our part. We have to live out the forgiveness whether it is there or not. Eventually it will come.