Prayer

As I write this meditation for your prayer consideration, I greet you in the name and steadfast love and righteousness of God the Father, Jesus his Son and our Savior who is gracious and merciful, and God our Helpful and Healing Advocate standing and empowering all chosen and called to speak and proclaim their Living Word to the voiceless and rejected so that they may know a better word and world without prejudice and discrimination as the church and community of faith and service to all…

practice for the life of prayer, he stresses that “the most fundamental of these obstacles is, of course, sin.” (p.163) We are human as created whole and not with the capacity for wholeness. By grace we are restored to that wholeness. We do not achieve it or find it. We were created human by grace and therefore, sin, as human self-contradiction presupposes our grace-created humanness. We need the grace so that we can be restored back and continue the practice of the life of prayer. Leech…

The poems ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ and ‘Prayer Before Birth’ emphasizes the themes of loss of innocence and growing up. Through the impact of tragedy and manmade horrors. At the start of ‘Mother in a Refugee camp’ the first words being “No Madonna" Achebe immediately creates a religious image in the reader’s mind of a mother carrying her child, this is representing Jesus and his mother. Achebe makes the poem seem as innocent as possible before getting the reader to feel sadness & sorrowful.…

Job 2:9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” As you can see even those closest to a believer can be more like enemeies than family or friends when it comes to our relationship with God. Tonight we will dive into our identity as members of the Christian family. We also will see why having ourselves rooted in that identity gives us both the command to love those outside of that family, and the power to correctly do so. In Pastor Timmothy Keller 's…

Shabbat is primarily a day of rest and spiritual enrichment (Judaism 101, n.d., para. 4). Furthermore, prayer is significant in Judaism for promoting peace and relationship with God. The following prayer is said on the Sabbath and is a part of daily prayer in Jewish festivals: May the Lord bless you and protect you... May the Lord show you kindness and grant you peace (Numbers 6:24-26) This prayer displays the fundamental connection Jews have to peace as granted by the Lord, which then must be…

got angry in the synagogue. She also did not like how he valued people more than animals. Zooey points out that Franny has not been saying the Jesus Prayer to Jesus. Rather, she has been saying it to “Jesus and St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all in one”’ (Salinger 166). He tells her that her efforts in saying the Jesus Prayer are futile if she does not say it to Jesus. The Gutres family misinterprets the role of Christ because of their illiteracy. They change Christ into…

In November of 1987, a very dear friend Dave Marano, lay dying of cancer in New York Hospital. He had a semi-private room. Adjacent to his bed in the same room separated by only by a long-drawn curtain, later I was introduced to him, his name was George. I would visit New York Hospital every day after work to check-up with my boyfriend Dave, who was going through several exploratory tests to find the cancer and localize the cancer and to find a way to stop it from spreading. Reluctantly, I…

Let me start by offering a little prayer that I say a lot and has been very helpful to me. It is called the serenity prayer. I’m not here to discuss your religious beliefs, but it is a prayer that I use as a way of reminding myself I can’t control everything nor should I try. Trying to control people, places and things will probably only lead to frustration and unhappiness. Try saying it once with me, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the…

Prayer Through an ambiguous setting, this poem depicts a unknown character full of emotion engaged in emotional dialog and through metaphors the writer expresses that life is as a rain drop from the sky it is soon just a memory. Author of the poem Prayer; Gioia Dana in this dramatic monologue establishes a tone of fear and discontentment but one may even say hopelessness and by this it establishes the mood of this poem and it becomes more important than the events that not mentioned. Author Dana…

Lament / complaining prayer is to bring our sorrow to God. As Bill says, “the lament prayer serves to articulate the problem that has arisen for the prayer. Characteristic in this articulation are hard and accusing questions (e.g., “Why?”) mediating complaints that something terribly wrong has occurred in the life of the suppliant.” Laments are common in the Old Testament but they are not common in the modern day church of the West. The modern day church forgets the necessity of lament over…