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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,298
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Young Senior Elder Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,298
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Finding Comfort
In prayer, you encounter God in the soft breeze, in the distress and joy of your neighbor and in the loneliness of your own heart. - Henri Nouwen
What does it mean to pray? Sometimes we think of prayer as being consciously articulated thoughts, petitions, and thanksgivings addressed to God. We speak, or think, and wait for God to answer. But what if prayer is sometimes nothing more than a mood of being attentive to what is going on? Joan Baez has described prayer as Paying Attention.
Perhaps in the mood of Paying Attention, we can welcome God into our lives - our joys and sorrows - as one who is also Paying Attention, and in the attentiveness understands and shares our sorrow, even as God's love wraps us around in God's mystery, and makes us feel we're going to make it home.
Healing After Loss by Martha Whitmore Hickman
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