Prayer isn’t intended to protect us from bad things

Dog at sea wall
Pretty sure that’s a Dog’s prayer position.

 

What we pray for and what we get are usually pretty close.

When we only pray after something bad has happened we generally get the equivalent to what we get in the aftermath of a hurricane or flood if we didn’t heed the warnings and prepare in advance.

Pray isn’t intended to protect us from bad things.

Prayer is intended to assist us in coping with the inevitable.

Get it?

Inevitable.

It is in our response that we thrive or survive.

Think about it.

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Got a minute?

Church steeple in Iowa City, iowa
Out for a run yesterday, counted hundreds of blessings

 

Got a minute? Just one minute, maybe even a little bit less than that…

Often challenging to focus on what’s just ahead of us, let alone 10-30 years down the road.

Did you start your day on your knees?

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Not a minute to spare?

early morning sunrise from ground level
Not a minute to spare to pray, but 50 minutes to run?

 

It was several hours after waking, including getting in a long run, before he realized the day hadn’t begun on his knees in prayer.

This happens about three times each year.

Quick remedy.

Just do it – right then and there.

And then he began to wonder…

How do so many people ignore this opportunity every morning?

How?

Not a minute to spare?

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Every thought is an opportunity to point only to one source for our infinite blessings

Leadership question
Without a shared purpose, say to make the world a better place, we are disjointed in our motivation

 

As we head to Church this morning, let us be ever mindful that every song the Z plays is a prayer.

Every verse a hopeful sound.

Every thought an opportunity to point only to one source for our infinite blessings.

Happy birthday Chapin.

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