What prayer can (and can't) do

[aeditimi]

In an earlier post, I wrote about praying for a woman whose family wants her to get better while she herself wants to be at peace:

And here I sit with a theology that says I can’t really request that God make anything happen.

A commenter on my WordPress Blog asked if I could say more about that, or if I’ve written about it in the past. I’m sure I

Comments

[ext_100315]

What I really love about you and your theology is that it's so post-modern, so about the "in and of" of humans and brokenness and the joy that happens anyway

theology prayer and not knowing

[anonymous]

I've been digging deeply into the well of theology trying to strike water (I remember dowsing for water back at the Vermont homestead and being rewarded by fountains of the stuff) but I have been drawn more and more into the conversation of the Dark Night of the Soul as SJOTC called it