Prayer is, I suspect, one of those things that those who profess a belief in God tend to talk about more than actually do. Which might be understandable. Who can long endure conversing with someone who, if actually seen, would produce such sensations of bewildering and blinding awe that one would be left prostrate on the floor?
Yet the Christian Scriptures teach that prayer moves the heart and mind of God and unleashes God's power in the world. An odd arrangement, when you think about it. So maybe that's why it's easy to not take it seriously or to do it very often for any length of time.
It's the two-billion-dollar check left among all the wrapping paper and boxes under the Christmas tree by the child who has eyes only for the new video game.
Prayer
A small gift
To: us
From: God
wrapped in brown paper,
tied not with gold ribbon but red string.
Easily hidden among the other gifts
under the Tree,
not shiny or flashy,
just an everyday sort of thing.
But when we put our hand to this gift,
and actually untie the string
and open the paper,
what happens then is a blinding flash
greater than that unleashed over Nagasaki
and the world is changed.
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