"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Prayer Happened, And I Was There.

"Without prayer, the best you can do is know by comparison, calculation, and from the limited view point of "you." Prayer is very traditionally understood, knows reality in a totally different way. Instead of presenting a guard itself to the moment, true prayer stops defending or promoting its ideas and feelings, let's go of any antagonistic attitudes or fears, and waits for, expects, and receives guidance from Another [God] ..... 

Most simply put, as we've seen, prayer is something that happens to you (Romans 8:26 - 27),  much more than anything you privately do. It is an allowing the Big Self [God] more than an assertion of the small self. Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, "Prayer happened, and I was there" more than "I pray today." All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being prayed through and you are no longer in the driver's seat. God stops being an object of attention like any other object in the world and becomes at some level your own "I am." You start knowing through, with, and in somebody else. Your little "I am" becomes "We are."

- Richard Rohr. The Naked Now 
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