Prayer moves in a continuous circle, from God to you; then from you to God. You will never know for sure who actually began a specific period of prayer. What you feel in your heart that impelled you to pray may have been proceeded by the secret prompting of God. Yet prayer, like language itself, […]
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Compassion
Compassion means not just to feel for, but also to feel with another. The origin of the word combined “com” (together), with “pathos” (pain or suffering.) Hence, it meant to “feel with or share in another’s pain.” And in the Hebrew Bible, “compassion” took its root in “womb love,” the love of a mother for […]
THE TOUCH OF GOD
There is no greater gift in prayer than the touch of God. It is both indescribable and undeniable; you know at once that it is God, and that it is strangely familiar. When God touches you, it is from the inside. No one but God can do that. It is always a touch of immeasurable […]
The Touch of God
There is no greater gift in prayer than the touch of God. It is both indescribable and undeniable; you know at once that it is God, and that it is strangely familiar. When God touches you, it is from the inside. No one but God can do that. It is always a touch of immeasurable […]