Genesis 21 records Jacob wrestling with a “man” until his opponent agreed to bless him. At daybreak, the adversary relented and blessed Jacob, changing his name to Israel. Dennis Prager says Israel means to struggle with God. “God assumes—even expects—those who believe in Him to struggle with Him.”[3] This is
All societies have acknowledged and practiced prayer of some kind to one or another deity. The contrary claim of atheists notwithstanding, to be human is to worship and thus to recognize the presence of a being greater than oneself. Given that, it’s a natural next step to ask that deity
While this transformative prayer of contemplation is all God’s doing and not our doing, we can be prepared vessels to receive his initiative. Just as the healing of the land was God’s doing and not man’s in 2 Chronicles 7:14, the people of Israel were to be prepared for God
Once we have entered into relationship with the Beautiful One, how do we come further up and further in? One of the ways into deeper communion with God is what some saints have called contemplative prayer. This may be the heart’s reflection and longing for the Beautiful – the living
Have you ever looked at a beautiful sunset? I don’t mean just “watched it set,” but did you really see it? Have you seen it in your soul? A sunset is not merely beautiful, it is a portal to Beauty! So, too, is the star filled sky, the form of
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