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Perhaps if we could start to be in conversation with God more often we would finally be able to be in conversation with each other more often. Perhaps prayer would be the starting point of engaging meaningful dialog in other areas.
Great thought, Jaye. I heard someone say a couple of weeks ago that prayer is about creating greater intimacy with God. If we’re reluctant or too busy or too locked up in ourselves to open up to intimacy with God, how likely is it we’ll have the willingness to create intimacy with each other, in all our imperfection and conditional love and judgmentalism?
I have been doing a lot (too much, truly) soul searching lately. And my thought after reading your blog is… could I not just rest and enjoy life for a while and not start a movement? Could this be a contempletive time of my life when I live each day as it comes and try to enjoy what is? yesterday I did a lot of wrting about how untetherd I felt because I didn’t have a mission at this time of my life, and shouldn’t I be more socially useful? Remembering that I am a “service driven” person. I realized that I can’t feel “good” if I don’t perceive myself as “doing good.” Then I remembered that that was a character defect for me
So, starting my day, today, I ask the God of my understanding to fill my heart with what I am intended to do today, knowing that includes greeting the day with a smile and enjoying what comes my way. I pray to be able to do that.
I hope you have a happy day also.
Chris
Settling into a contemplative time of life feels like a perfect mission and exploring how you feel about that by journaling seems a reflection of that contemplative state. So your “movement” at this time in your life might be to model that contemplative life instead of the “doing” life. Who knows who might follow such a movement (me, maybe?) and how much better their corner of the world might be for it. Thanks, Chris.
I have been considering this idea of starting a movement, sounds exciting yet overwhelming….have been considering what my movement would look like and what comes to mind are my passions….my desires..I believe my God places all I need within me to serve as He created me to. So I have spent this time contemplating what my deepest desires and strongest passion might be….fully confident He would use these parts of me to bring about this movement…..because it would be His movement I would be His simple servant….thank you for helping my God to get me to look more fully into myself…and to me this is part of prayer…..for I have asked Him to accomany me on this journey, for it is His will I want to do… I am excited to see where He takes me…..I feel I am on the brink of change….Lisa
I don’t think I could get through the day without prayer. Don’t want to find out either. Sometimes it a quick conversation when I get up,or on my way to work. Praying for my patients having surgery that day, the doctors, and all the nurses(myself included). I’m far from the perfect pray er. I’m Trying .I sometime forget to thank Him for ALL the many blessings He has given me . Like I say I’m Trying.I try to keep the line open until I fall asleep thanking Him for the day and all the blessings in it. How blessed I am ,with all my many faults and short commings,He still loves me & takes care of me. How wonderful is that ????? Jackie
This is a good reminder for to be still more often in prayer. I’ve been running pretty hard at work and with other commitments. I’m always disappointed that prayer is one of the first things I neglect in busy seasons. I echo Peg’s words that I have felt real joy and fullness from prayer. But I easily slide into patterns in which I only mutter recited words. Ryan