Reflections on the Everyday: When your longing becomes a prayer, expect an answer

May 20, 2008

When your longing becomes a prayer, expect an answer

Reviewing my journal I found the following prayer, quoted from The Sacrament of the Present Moment, recorded on January 6 of this year:

Mystify me, arouse and confuse me. Shatter all my illusions and plans so that I lose my way, and see neither path nor light until I have found You.

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Ancient-Future Truths

. . . just as you do not analyze the words of someone you love, but accept them as they are said to you, accept the Word of Scripture and ponder it in your heart, as Mary did. That is all. That is meditation.

- - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me -- watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.

- - Jesus Christ, Matthew 11:28-30 (The Message)

The fundamental elements in building community are presence and shared communication and openness which flows out of enabling one to communicate, listen, join, share, willingly make a common journey with others, willingly enter the places of pain and need in reciprocal giving and receiving.

- - Charles Ringma, Seek the Silences