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"Prayer"
the theme of prayer. Does God have a "voice" in our prayers? PRAYER Master, they say that when I seem To be in speech with you, Since you make no replies, it's all a dream -One talker aping two. They are half right, but not as they Imagine; rather, I Seek in myself the things I meant to say, And lo! the wells are dry. Then, seeing me empty, you forsake The listener's role, and through My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake The thoughts I never knew. And thus you neither need reply Nor can; thus while we seem Two talking, thou art One forever, and I No dreamer, but thy dream. - C.S. Lewis, "Prayer," from POEMS, edited by Walter Hooper, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964. [If I am committed to a life of prayer, I certainly can't always wait around until I have all the right words (or even the right ideas) ready to launch into appropriate praise and petition. No, sometimes I have to believe that the Holy Spirit will direct my prayer according to the will of God. See Romans 8:26-27 for a little Tuesday morning prayer life encouragement.] Have a great week, Chip |