Prayer

A couple of days ago I was visiting a very close friend of mine at his home. After supper, his 4 year old daughter ran towards me and handed me a peice of white paper and smiling, she said,
"Mark look!"
On the peice of paper, she had painted a green triangle, and a brown square. A picture that she had painted herself, in pre-school the week before.

After she handed me the picture, I smiled big and said, "Wow, did you paint this!"

After looking at the painting, content and pleased,
Hannah said proudly, "Yep."


It reminded me of something I read in a book, that said.

"Pray as you can; don't pray as you can't."

Let us suppose you give your three-year-old daughter a coloring book and a box of crayons for her birthday. The following day, with the proud smile only a little one can muster, she presents her first picture for inspection. She has colored the sun black, the grass purple, and the sky green. In the lower right hand corner, she has added woozy wonders of floating slabs and hovering rings; on the left; a panoply of colorful, carefree squiggles. You marvel at her bold strokes and intuit that her psyche is railing against its own cosmic smallness in the face of a big, ugly world. Later at the office, you share with your staff your daughter's first artistic effort and you make veiled references to the early work of van Gogh. A little child cannot do a bad coloring; nor can a child of God do a bad prayer.

Praying is an area that many struggle with because they aren't aware that in the freedom of the Spirit, there are as many ways of praying as there are individual believers.

Reference to the Book:
"the Ragamuffin Gospel"
-Brennan Manning

If God had an office, the door would ALWAYS be open for you to talk to Him.

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