In what is
commonly called prayer, you and your hurts, needs, and perspectives are still
the central reference point, not really God. But you have decided to invite a
Major Power in to help you with your already determined solution! God can
perhaps help you get what you want, but it is still a self-centered desire,
instead of God’s much better role—which is to help you know what you really
desire (Luke 11:13, Matthew 7:11). It always takes a bit of time to widen this
lens, and therefore the screen, of life.
One goes through
serious withdrawal pain for a while until the screen is widened to a
high-definition screen. It is work to learn how to pray, largely the work of
emptying the mind and filling the heart—that is prayer in one concise
and truthful phrase. Or as some say, "pulling the mind down into the heart"
until they both operate as one. A good thing to think about with all of the
hearts you will probably see on this Valentine's Day!
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