parking lot prayers
my celebration of Lent this year includes
giving up apathy (toward my relationship with God in particular) and putting on
intentional devotion. it’s a long and
drawn out story but the short version is that as someone who works for the
church, i.e. for God, my own personal faith can be sucked into the ‘work.’ so for lent, I’ve committed to daily spending
time with God thru prayer and journaling and reading through the gospel of
Matthew.
I’d like to say that I hope out of bed every morning and spend and
hour in devotion but honestly, i don’t have that habit and while I try to start
my day with this practice, it’s sometimes difficult. which is why I found myself here.
this is the view from my car at Canyons
restaurant parking lot in Blowing Rock.
I’d taken my daughter Molly back to school at ASU and in the rush to get
out the door, I’d bypassed the journalling.
so as I’m jamming to mumford and sons and heading back to Hville, I look
to my right and see this view.
stunning…
so i whip my car into the parking lot, stopped and pulled out my journal (I take it with me everywhere) and wrote my breath prayers.
“Jesus, maker of these mountains, be near to
me.”
“Jesus, light of the world, show me the way"
“Jesus, who said to Thomas, ‘see and
believe’; show me who you are.”
my hope is that prayer; really talking to and listening for God, becomes as natural as breathing.
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