1 Thessalonians 5:17... says, “pray continually ”
If prayer is the natural language of the soul, each of us has a dialect that is most natural for us. Pause and reflect on what your natural dialect might be. Maybe being honestly your unique self before God is more creative; possibly what bursts from within you when you are your true self before God is a short story, a dance, a wonderful culinary creation or a fresh way of looking at some important issue.
Right now I’m spending a few months studying what prayer is and all its different forms as part of the CR Transforming Retreats. I love the idea that prayer can be not only the stereotypical things that come to mind...but that it can be a creative expression of your soul as your way of communicating with God. Now that’s outside the box thinking and I love that! How else would you describe some of the things that come out of your deep soul that you create but a groaning/urging in your spirit towards the One who created you...and that is a form of prayer.
If you read the verse that follows the one above in verse 18 it says to “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” In a prayer I recently read from Ted Loder in his book “Guerillas of Grace” he prays, “Thankful for the surge of determination to accept difficulty not as an excuse for passivity, but as a goad for creativity.” I love the thought of giving thanks for difficult circumstances as a catalyst for us to be creative...and what might come about could heal our hearts and maybe even others’ hearts as well.
Praying that if you haven’t done so before that you will find your way of expressing yourself creatively to be a unique, personal, healing, and life giving way you can connect with God. Praying you will find that the very thing God put in you to be creative with can be one of the closest ways you can communicate with Him as your true unique self.
If you haven’t subscribed already, I highly recommend the daily free online Lenten devotional at the web link below. It is short, set to beautiful peaceful music, and each day is a very beautiful prayer to pray and connect as your truest self to Him...what a gift for you and God to be able to do that each day leading up to Easter! <http://www.d365.org/journeytothecross/>
Praying for you,
Stacey
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