Ah man…
I had quite a rough week. It would appear last week’s prayer post about John’s Gospel leading my soteriology thought hit a nerve. I received a few pointed comments I am not publishing right now. I am still struggling with that decision. I was confronted pretty hard face to face by someone in another public forum where I openly shared how John’s Gospel leads my soteriology. I am still struggling with that interaction...my attitude and my behavior.
I choose a public forum to pray.
I choose a public forum to talk about my relationship with our Triune God.
Is this like ‘kiss and tell?’
Am I building a Tower, if you will, like I questioned on October 6th?
If I don’t publish the pointed comments is this blog actually proselytizing?
Others’ responses to questions I pose are as legitimate and heartfelt as the questions themselves.
My prayer ~ conversation ~ is all about the questions and listening to the answers or pondering
questions presented to me as answers; moving me deeper into my heart...opening my soul...helping me to become vulnerable to dependence on God alone.
Am I too selfish to open myself to others’ prayers?
Am I too frightened to truthfully open myself to my OWN prayer…
I pray I will pray free of any agenda always.
I pray Jesus will never have to say to me, “If I question, you will not respond.”
~ Luke 22: 68
I pray I will invite others to pray with me free of an agenda always.
I pray I will hear another's prayer always.
I pray I will live God is Love always.
I pray I will feel God's Love through another person always.
I pray (my soul) will leap in (my) womb, filling with the Holy Spirit when I am greeted by another always.
~ Luke 1: 41
I pray (others' souls) will leap in (their) wombs, and be filled with the Holy Spirit when I greet them always.
~ Luke 1: 41
Ah man…
This is the First Sunday of Advent. Perhaps it is only fitting that I enter this Advent Season...this First Sunday of the Church Year...challenged by my own prayer…
Am I truly feeling 'the kingdom of God is at hand...within me?'
~ Luke 17: 21
Peace.
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