Piloting Faith: The danger of prayer...

A Word for the Day...

The real danger of prayer is not that we will wake God up. It's that God will awaken us.

I love the words from Annie Dillard who said...

"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return."

This is my prayer for all of us this week: that we encounter that waking god who draws us to where we can never return.

- Rev. Cameron Trimble, author of Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight

Blessing for the Week

May the God who dwells beyond us
and the God who dwells among us
and the God who calls us to dwell together
bless you now
and always.

- Jan Richardson, Sacred Journeys: A Woman's Book of Daily Prayer