Norris Burkes had another thought provoking column this week.
Andi Bowsher, author of Praying the Pattern …says , “Paul [when he said to pray without ceasing] was suggesting making life into prayer rather than making prayer into a life.”…I can spend all week praying for fresh inspiration and still get nothing but a frustrated editor muttering some pretty unspiritual words about my column being past deadline. But when I seek to make my life a prayer, when I seek to serve and to become the answer to the prayers prayed by others, I get real inspiration…I pray to become the prayer… Norris Burkes (to see the full article go to his website.
I keep coming back to the idea that our lives are really the answer to someone else’s prayer when we live our life as a prayer or are conscious of it. I think I’ve been aware of that on occasion, but not as a guiding principle. (Elsewhere in the article Burkes talks of ‘living the principle that Bowsher describes.’)
Can you think of a time when you were the answer to someone’s prayer? Perhaps you didn’t recognize it at the time.
Karin
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