December 17, 2023 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Mesquite Dunes 03/20/2007 — Death Valley National Park, California
Pray without words.

Commune with The Mystery
with a silence too deep for words.

Pray this image, for instance.
Or the impact it has on you.

Pray a memory.
A dream.

Pray your feelings.

Your predominant emotion.

Your rarely felt/experienced emotion.

Your entire range of emotions.

Pray emptiness.
The dearth of emotions.

Pray aloneness.

Pray beauty.

Pray horses,
and dogs.
Cats and whales.
Hippos and marbles.

Pray your day
as you live it,
walk through it,
contemplate it...

Pray you at any moment
throughout it.

Invite The Mystery 
into your life.

Welcome The Mystery.
Allow The Mystery
to pray itself to you.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

2 thoughts on “December 17, 2023 – A”

  1. Prayer is beautiful in words, with tears, or in silence. But the prayer in silence ‘without words’ feels more powerful, almost establishing an instant direct connection, and merging of the one praying with the whole, the source and recipient of everything.
    Silent prayer is the union and oneness with the mystery…without any need to even know, what this mystery is!

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