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Prodigal:\u00a0 This place just has a calming peace with it.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I know,\u00a0 to stop and pray would be amazing!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 That would be wonderful.<\/p>\n

This is from the book<\/p>\n

How Firm a Foundation:\u00a0 A Gift of Jewish Wisdom for Christians and Jews by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein<\/p>\n

The reason why we pray, said William James, is simply that we cannot help praying.\u00a0 Prayer is the most natural and universal human urge, man’s spiritual ladder linking him with ultimacy itself.\u00a0 It springs almost instinctively from the human condition in which man, a finite being, encounters a personal, infinite, and loving God, one who hears man’s cries and is deeply concerned for his welfare.\u00a0 Prayer represents the language and music of our souls.\u00a0 Its enrapturing power penetrates to the very core of our being.\u00a0 Prayer gives expression to man’s longing for devekut (“union with the divine”) and to his feelings of awe and wonder over God’s creation.\u00a0 It stems from man’s quest to encounter the living God and from his thirst to communicate with him.\u00a0 It flows from our abiding faith in God’s immanence and from our unswerving trust that “the Lord is near to all who call upon him …in truth” (Ps. 145:18).\u00a0 The mystical tradition describes the purifying, regenerative magic of prayer in the following manner:\u00a0 “As the flame clothes the black, sooty clod in a garment of fire and releases the heat imprisoned therein, even so does prayer clothe a man in a garment of holiness, evoke the light and fire implanted within him by his Maker, illumine his whole being, and unite the Lower and the Higher Worlds.”\u00a0 Indeed, “would that man would pray all day” (B.T., Ber 21a).<\/p>\n

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.\u00a0 This is the true God, and eternal life.\u00a0 1 John 5:20<\/p>\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodgialpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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