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As far as prayer goes I always apply this saying:
"Be careful in what you ask for. You might just get it."
That fits my experiences. I gave up prayer as a child, after a couple of tries, since I didn't like YHWH, rather he listened or not, so it felt hypocritical.
When I was thirty two and suicidal, I decided I had nothing to lose but my “sanity”, and I wasn't enjoying that, so from the depths of my atheist dark night of the soul, I “prayed” for meaning and love. Then I met my ex-wife. She had been told that her next husband would be the first man she had met who had read CS Lewis “Till We Have Faces”. That was me.
When I was born again, I proposed to my wife while in what might be described as a state of prophetic possesion, or a psychotic breakdown, or perhaps some Jungian state of archetypical activation, but my perception was I was in a prophetic state and being guided in my every word and action to say things and behave in a manner utterly unlike me in order to accomplish God's will and bring us together.
"Be careful in what you ask for. You might just get it."
I don't remember misses, but I know that the larger number of prayers I made did not have any obvious answer, but enough did to keep me in a freaky state until my wife's prayer for a wake-up call to America was answered on September 11, 2001.
"Be careful in what you ask for. You might just get it."
My last prayer to God was to inspire me to write. I spent six days in jail, denied access to a lawyer. The fifth day was my birthday. I said, “If this doesn't inspire me, nothing will.” It worked.
"Be careful in what you ask for. You might just get it."
Peace, love, wisdomStatistics: Posted by Twain Shakespeare — 14 Oct 2010, 02:56
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