Longing to Pray – Day 5 “In the final measure, God is the only Friend with whom we can be utterly and completely honest. Our God is strong enough to hear our complaints, including especially those complaints that may reflect on God’s own character. God is never shocked by what we say. God never says, …
Longing to Pray – Day 4 “I think God is the kind of good Friend who enlists other people to pray for us. I think that’s what may be happening on those occasions when someone comes to the mind unbidden; this may be God’s nudge to pray for that person. But God reveals no secrets …
We are privileged to see the spiritual giants who wrote the psalms, not in portraits of their spiritual finery, but in the rags of their candid struggles. No wonder, then, that in our own times of despair and struggle, we turn to the book of Psalms. We know we will find some spiritual kin there.” …
“Since friendship unfolds in the context of daily life, it can hardly be expected to fit into neatly engineered rules. Friendship has more to do with desire than with design. It is a grand thing, but it flourishes in common places, and often in unlikely ones, like the flower that blooms through a crack in …
During the season of Lent we will be focusing on fostering a life of prayer with the help of Dr. Elsworth Kalas’ book, ‘Longing to Pray’. Each day we will post a short quote from the book and a prayer prompt to engage us in prayer. Let the journey begin! “Thinking that our posture wins …
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