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Christian prayer is an interesting study and exercise. Most prayers are entered into when one is in trouble or when there is a great need. Few prayers come under what Wordsworth calls, "The wisdom and spirit of the universe". Who knows what God wants for God's sake (pun intended). Most kids who grew up through various CATECHISMS were soon done with wanting to KNOW about spiritual things. Just bring on the GOOD STUFF! Unfortunately mainline Christianity has stayed at the kindergarten level of anthropomorphism. So in prayer, God is Daddy and we are his children. We want and Dad provides. It's really pretty simple. Yes, and most often it's very petty as well. It's expected that as we age that we mature as well. Some even digress from God as Dad to Granddad. You know, we see Him less, but he always gives more. What a LIFE! This manner of praying which is generally thought of as PETITIONING, or if you will, COMPLAINING, doesn't cause one to grow up. Has it ever occurred that maybe prayer is more about COMMUNION? What if we spent more time just BEING with the one: being still and knowing God. Being still and listening for what it might be that we and the inner voice come to mutually see as answers to our life. Too difficult? It's been said that in the West we pray for God to get us out of problems while in the East they pray to be taken care of in and through the ordeal. Maybe we could strike some common ground and just listen, speak, communion and maybe pretend that we're ONE with the Creator and that life could be much richer if we'll converse with the I AM that is- WITHIN!
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