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- From: "G.J. McCaughan" <gjm11@CUS.CAM.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: Prayer
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- In response to Petri's "prayer questionnaire", Glenn writes:
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- > The rule that I follow is
- > that is something leapt into my head (both good and bad
- > things), I usually let God know about it. I have been
- > really ashamed of the thoughts that sometimes jump in there,
- > but I feel that confessing these thoughts, no matter how
- > ugly, is a safer course than trying to hide them or trying
- > to keep them bottled up inside so they can eat away at me.
- > I figure our relationship is big enough to handle these
- > feelings and that I had better make them known to the Lord.
-
- C S Lewis said something like this too: that when we are praying
- we must be utterly honest with God: if we really want something
- we should tell him so, even if we are then going to say "But I know
- I shouldn't really get it".
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- I think this makes good sense; there's little point in praying if
- we're going to try to hide things from God. (What a ludicrous idea,
- anyway...)
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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