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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Why we pray

It's something I've never been able to figure out -- why do we pray?  Yeah, yeah, I've heard that old chestnut about how it's not for God but it's for us.  But what if it isn't really doing anything for me either?  What's the point?  This insight from Joanna Laufer struck me as one reason:

"Prayer is a choice.  For us to pray, to give thanks, or to voice our questions and doubts shows that we are choosing to leave an opening on our spirits.  Without this opening, there is no vessel, no place into which God can breathe."

2 comments:

Mandy Dawson Farmer said...

OK. I've never been that good at writing. I recall my freshman english teacher in high school taking a maternity leave and telling us to write her sometime. One of the boys in the class responded, "You'll just correct it and send it back." :) I hope that doesn't happen here. :)

Anyway, my thoughts on prayer......Prayer is the equivelant to picking up the phone and talking to a friend. It's fellowship time. Not just us talking, but us listening as well.

If a person means anything to us, we correspond with them... either by talking or writing.

God wants to spend time with us and if He means anything to us, then we would want to spend time with him. Right? How else would we truly get to know him?

KayCee said...

Hi Mandy,
Thanks for being the first to comment, BTW. Yes, it amazes me that God wants to spend time with us as much as He wants us to spend time with Him. I forget that it is a two-way relationship. I tend to see prayer as a duty rather than a conversation.