Living a Life Worth Living – Writings by Robin McKinley
Prayer in the Hebrew Bible is an evolving means of interacting with God. Most frequently though, through a spontaneous, individual, unorganized form of petitioning and/or thanking. The act of praying is a method of changing a situation for the better.
Prayer is, in the Christian faith and in many other spiritual traditions, a way of being and a way of relating. Prayer is a way of being: being in the moment, being present, being open. It is a way of learning to be ourselves. … Praying is a way of relating: to God, to ourselves, to those around us.
We can use prayer as a way of opening our hearts to God, not as a being living in an extra-dimensional heaven, but as the wellspring of creative energy within us and the universe. By quieting our minds, we can open ourselves to experience this divine ground directly.
The Bible recorded the story of Hannah in the first 2 chapters of 1 Samuel. In fact, that is the only place she is mentioned in the entire Bible. In our verse for today, she fulfilled a promise she made to God. Hannah made that promise before the conception of her son Samuel. I asked … Read more
I wonder what condition the church would be in if we didn’t have faithful intercessors?