“For the highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. It comes down to us to meet our humblest needs. It gives life to our souls and makes them live and grow in grace and virtue. It is near in nature and swift in grace,for it is the same grace which our souls seek and always will.”
-Julian of Norwich
Three things I desire from God.
That my faith will become my strength. I want to know God’s goodness and sovereignty in such a way that it becomes all that I trust. It’s easy to say things like, “God is good, all the time- All the time, God is good.” Is my heart proclaiming that as truth, or rather hope. My first desire is that my faith would become real, even if it is through suffering.
Suffering: that I would not desire to please myself. I’m discovering that in the moments that we die to ourselves, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to be selfish. My second desire from God is that I would seek his goodness through suffering; in such a way that I would not separate the two.
I do not have a third yet. While reading the prayers of Julian of Norwich- her prayers that reach a desire to know the lords goodness just a little more, even if it means tasting death. In the genuineness of my heart, I find myself hesitant to pray anything even similar. I want to commit to the first two- until a third has become real.
Father you have inclined to me and heard my cry, give me endurance in faith, knowing that you hear my voice.
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