May we be prepared whatever happens rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy name as to be partakers of that glory which has been acquired for us through the blood of thine only-begotten Son. Amen.

A PERSONS FAITH GOES AT ITS OWN PACE Owen Meany said THE TROUBLE WITH CHURCH IS THE SERVICE. A SERVICE IS CONDUCTED FOR A MASS AUDIENCE. JUST WHEN I START TO LIKE THE HYMN EVERYONE PLOPS DOWN TO PRAY. JUST WHEN I START TO HEAR THE PRAYER EVERYONE POPS UP TO SING. AND WHAT DOES THE STUPID SERMON HAVE TO DO WITH GOD WHO KNOW WHAT GOD THINKS OF CURRENT EVENTS WHO CARES

I just remembered a time when to warm up my spirit I prayed movement is spirit. Prayer was a means of mutely and hidden from others reaching myself. When I prayed I achieved an emptiness of soul - and that emptiness is all I can ever have. Besides that nothing. But the emptiness has the value and appearance of plenty. One way of getting is not looking one way of having is not asking and only believing that the silence I believe to be inside me is the answer to my - to my mystery.

As I continued to pray raggedly prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward. If for any reason I were deprived of it I was distressed as if I had been deprived of some life necessity like water. I cannot say I changed. There tore through me a transformation with the force of a river which dammed up and diverted for a lifetime bursts its way back to its true channel. I became what I was. I ceased to be what I was not.

The power of prayer is priceless. Great things can be accomplished by prayer.

God wants your adoration. He wants your confessions. He wants your thankfulness. He wants your requests. But most of all He wants you and your love for Him with all your heart strength mind and soul. What a joy it is to be so wanted by the Creator of everything.

Another like me Dont leave me out here with myself Id go mad. Pleasedont leave me alone Samuel Just take me home Tears stream down her face.Please take me home

But being overborne with numbers and nobody daring to face about stretching out his hands to heaven Romulus prayed to Jupiter to stop the army and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made than shame and respect for their king checked many the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

He Lincoln recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring a feeling a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.