the great beyond...
"What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish in the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell Him sins that He already knows full well. You seek to change His
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This is amazing. I've never read this before. I believe so strongly in the act of prayer. Prayer says I'm willing to ask for God to guide my thoughts. I said to Doug the other day that I believe that God welcomes our anger, but not our indifference. So, rage against the night, I guess. My understanding of my relationship with God is informed by astronomy, light years, the speed of sound. And giant squid. That kind of thing. I believe deeply in a creative force and in asking for the ability to perceive grace, mercy, love, and beauty, and to reflect it to other creatures.
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