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This week for our devotions, Pastor Brook is looking at several quotes from the book “Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep.” This is a book we are studying through the Lent and Easter Season. Our first gathering is on Monday, March 11th at 7pm at the church.
“Craftsmen—writers, brewers, dancers, potters—show up and work, and they participate in a mystery. They take up a craft, again and again, on bad days and good, waiting for a flash of mercy, a gift of grace.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Tish Warren believes that prayer is a craft. “It’s something we take up, again and again, on bad days and good, waiting for a flash of mercy, a gift of grace.”
We don’t have to have the “right words” when we pray. We don’t have to wait until we “feel God’s presence.” The task is to just bow our heads and pray. The task is to take out our pens and write. And as we do it, and the more we do it, we will begin to become people who have learned a new craft: praying!
This Christmas my kids gave me a virtual golfing kit. It’s allowed me to go out and hit golf balls into a net in my garage every day. At first, I really struggled. I mean I couldn’t even hit the net at first. The balls were all over the place. But every day for 15 minutes I’ve decided to give it a go, and sure enough, after 2 months…I hit the net! Maybe prayer is like that. It’s a craft that we all can learn. We just need to take the 15 minutes every day and do it! And by the way…we already have a net, right? Jesus!
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