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“Then God promises to love me all day, sing songs all through the night!
My life is God’s prayer.”
--Psalm 42:8 from The Message
Eugene Peterson, the writer of The Message, says, “The impulse to pray is deep within us, at the very center of our created being, and so practically anything will do to get us started—‘Help’ and ‘Thanks!’ are our basic prayers.
Untutored, we tend to think that prayer is what good people do when they are doing their best. It is not.
Inexperienced, we suppose that there must be an ‘insider’ language that must be acquired before God takes us seriously in our prayers. There is not.
It is the means by which our language becomes honest, true, and personal in response to God.
It is the means by which we get everything in our lives out in the open before God.”
My prayer for you — May your morning prayers bring you into the presence of God so you feel surrounded by Holy love as the day turns into night. Amen.
Ben Keckler
01.23.08
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