In a post a few weeks ago I talked about how prayer is still a mystery to me. One of the mysteries of prayer is the “mystery of the many.” The apostle Paul refers to this mystery in his second letter to the Corinthians, writing after a time of terrible danger:
So what are your thoughts about God these days — these 28 days into our 45 day prayer journey?
Yesterday I read this quote from Frederick Buechner:
Last week I talked about the mystery of the cross as well as the mystery we call “Jesus.” Given the 24/45 prayer journey we’re on, it seems appropriate to say something about the mystery of prayer.
Like most people, I have lots of questions about prayer: Why is prayer necessary? What’s the best way to pray? [...]
Yesterday I talked about the mystery of the cross. But the cross points to an even greater mystery. Its name is “Jesus.”
“Who do the crowds say I am?” Jesus poses this question to his disciples at about the half-way point in each of the first three gospels. The disciples respond by saying that Jesus is [...]
I feel so proud of you: you are really taking this up, this call to come continuously into God’s presence for 45 days. Only one shift during today and tomorrow remains to be filled. While it may seem strange to put it this way, I especially feel proud of your humility.
An ice storm our first night of 24/45. Interesting.
One evening, while teaching a large crowd, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go over to the other side.” I sense that many of us are hoping to cross over to the other side during the next 45 days — the other side of our fears, the [...]
Some of you blog-readers may have noticed that an “open letter” post appeared once before and then suddenly disappeared. That’s because I had my facts wrong. Rob (to whom the first ’open letter’ had been addressed) emailed me in great dismay because I’d written that the 24/45 idea was his and it wasn’t.
“So what if nothing happened?”
No one has said this to me exactly, but I know you’re out there. Maybe you’re too embarrassed to say anything, or too disappointed. Maybe you’ve been trying to come up with some explanation as to why nothing happened, which I’m guessing has only piled self-judgment onto your feelings of disappointment. [...]
“Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel. All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together. But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to [...]
“… and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” (Matthew 17:5)
Let me be clear about where I am headed in this series of posts about faith. I want to help us be connected to Jesus. I want us to be [...]
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