MAYBE SOME OF US have forgotten how to pray...SO...
GOING BACK TO BASICS...If ‘PRAYER’ can be simply defined as ‘CONVERSATION WITH GOD’...THEN...
IF WE TRULY BELIEVE or at least HOPE, or even in desperation cry out...
IN A CONVERSATION WITH GOD...WHO WOULD DO THE MOST TALKING AND WHO SHOULD DO THE MOST LISTENING...???
HUMANLY SPEAKING IT’S relatively easy to come up with a typical ‘LAUNDRY LIST’ of petitions or needs to place at God’s feet, but, IF GOD IS TRULY PRESENT doesn’t HE ALREADY KNOW OUR NEEDS...SO...
NOW, the simple definition of ‘PRAYER’ is: CONVERSATION WITH GOD...The definition we learned in grade school was: PRAYER IS THE LIFTING UP OF THE MIND AND HEART TO GOD...and a good friend of mine who passed away recently would always add: AT THE INVITATION OF GOD...
SO, like a Good Father, it is always GOD WHO REACHES OUT TO US, not the other way around...YET...
EVEN SO...there are those times when I know God wishes to ‘CONTACT ME’ but my heart and/or mind just … (6 comments)
conversation with god: PHILOSOPHY AND PRAYER...Fran's Friday Forum...!!!
- 01/31/13 08:42 AM
Last week’s post created an exhaustive comment string of well thought out and informatively created questions and comments...from both sides of the ‘gun’ issue...!!! This week’s post, I thought, should be a kind of refreshing ‘mind break’, a kind of retreat from the front lines, a respite, a ‘laying down of arms’ for the purpose of renewing and rejuvenating our minds...AND SO... In that Spirit I invite all who read this to meditate or think about the difference between a person’s PHILOSOPHY and a person’s PRAYER... From the dictionary: PHILOSOPHY, 1. a pursuit of wisdom, a search for general understanding of values and reality … (7 comments)
conversation with god: Fran's Friday Forum...Fit For Freaky Finicky Friendly Fanatics...!!!
- 12/05/08 01:00 AM
Don't ask me what that title implies...I have no idea...It's just that I won't be posting again until Sunday Afternoon when I get back with two of my sons from our annual spiritual retreat weekend at Saint Joseph in The Hills in Malvern, Pennsylvania! There will be over 300 men in attendance from all over the Delaware Valley, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and other varied locations...some of these men have been attending these retreats annually for over 50 years...and in many cases the only time they see one another is on the actual retreat weekend...nevertheless many strong and enduring friendships … (14 comments)
YESTERDAY, was our NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER...!!!
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