Often, I
tell people that I will be "lifting them into God's presence" as a
way of saying I will pray for them. It seems so trite to say that – like God
would somehow be busy watching a basketball game and would not otherwise notice
their angst.
I suppose
what I mean is that I'm throwing my lot in with them in this conversation,
opening myself to be shown where my role is. I'm honoring the threads that
connect my life and heart with theirs. THAT's what I think happens when you
chose to pray for somebody else's circumstances, whether we recognize it or
not.
If we
told people that, about what prayer is and does, I wonder if some of them would
stop doing it so much, or at least think long and hard before saying that they
are doing it.
What do
you think?
© 2015
Todd Jenkins
wonderful point and, yes, we would hesitate.
ReplyDeleteIf I knew the half of anything, I'd probably think long and hard about all things. Prayer is one of those funny things to me as it seems to be tossed about like love and in the tossing we lose the meaning.
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