My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Prayer
Prayer is necessary, but not prayer that pleads and apologizes. That is not as important or necessary as prayer that asks God who he is, and shares with him who we are and what we do. Prayer has to treat God as an equal, as someone capable of understanding, a person wanting to listen, care and share in our lives. Prayer focused on real things and true relationships takes God seriously, and is of more value to him and to us. Far more than what is but groveling or begging, a process making both parties nothing to be taken too seriously.
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