Month: October 2011
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Prayer as Relationship
“Prayer is inherently relational; it thrives in the context of an authentic, dynamic, reciprocating friendship with God.” Cynthia Hyle Bezek in Prayer Begins in Relationship, p. 15. Too often prayer becomes an item to check off the to-do list or becomes nothing more than our attempt to get God to act on our behalf for ...
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Defined by Relationship
“In solitude, at last we're able to let the Lord define us the way we are always supposed to be defined: by relationship, the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence. If we've never lived in the realm of pure presence without our world of achieving, we don't ...
Gail Johnsen 