My New Year Resolution, if you can call if that, is to love God more. I thought I'd go for something big this year. Specifically, to try to see what it means to love Him with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my mind. I suspect this is a life's work, if not more than that, but the last few years have led me here, and I think that everything that's important kind of stems from this, the first and greatest commandment.
Years ago, I read a book by Margaret Silf, called 'The Gift of Prayer: Embracing the Sacred in the Everyday'. I've no idea why but my eye was drawn to it again the other day. I had asked God what I could do to love Him more, and I think He began to answer me my reminding me of the wisdom in these pages.
The author talks about prayer as a belonging, a coming to stillness; it's about listening and learning to live reflectively. Each of the little sections is beautifully expressed but the one that stopped me in my tracks was the heading:
'Prayer is a Gift, not an Achievement'
Continued over at the Association of Christian Writers' blog, More Than Writers, where I post on 23rd of every month. Come over and say hello?
Continued over at the Association of Christian Writers' blog, More Than Writers, where I post on 23rd of every month. Come over and say hello?
