Thoughts on Prayer for Those Who Don't

Thoughts on Prayer 

for Those Who Don’t

Non-pray-ers can pray too, you know.  It’s not rocket science – this thing called prayer.  You don’t have to have a degree in anything to say a prayer.  You just need to do it when the need comes over you.

I love what Mary Oliver says.

“Just patch a few words together

and don’t try to make them elaborate;

this isn’t a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.”

It’s the willingness and the need to do this thing called prayer … not your eloquence, nor your degrees, not even your bank account or your intellect, and especially not where you were born or where you currently live.

I love her line “just patch a few words together.”  God is listening for your heart to speak, not your syntax, not your impressive vocabulary. 

I have this quote in my files.  I don’t know who said it, but it works.  “God speaks heart murmurings.”

There is one more line that needs highlighting.  “This isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks”

Many people, and I’ve heard this all of my years in church attendance, think they have no eloquent thoughts to offer to God, so they keep quiet.  Praying is not a contest.  No, no.  It is an honest murmuring of a sincere heart seeking a God who loves them and cares. 

And the crowning thought … “a silence in which another voice may speak.”

Wow!  To think that we might possibly have a direct and personal link to God and He has something to speak into our lives.

I am amazed!

God becomes small enough to enter into our world, our thoughts, our prayers, our concerns. 

I’ve written enough.  It’s your move.

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P Michael Biggs

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