God's complaint box?
Communion or conversation with God breaks down into two questions: How am I doing? What is coming at me? Am I happy, sad, thankful, discouraged, angry, frustrated? What is God saying to me? What does the Word say?
David Powlison • A Praying Life
And if we don’t get what we prayed for, how do we keep from either being angry with God or feeling that we have been judged and found wanting? How do we avoid feeling that God has let us down just when we needed Him most?
Harold S. Kushner • When Bad Things Happen to Good People
To see the Storyteller we need to slow down our interior life and watch. We need to be imbedded in the Word to experience the Storyteller’s mind and pick up the cadence of his voice. We need to be alert for the story, for the Storyteller’s voice speaking into the details of our lives. The story God weaves is neither weird nor floaty. It always invo
... See moreDavid Powlison • A Praying Life
There are times when God wants to bestow a beneficence, but we may be too suspicious, too rigid, too harried to receive the blessing. Preoccupied with our patterns of thought, we are disinclined to pause, and it may not be easy for God to capture our attention.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
I have realised that it is a moral error to compulsively fixate on the world's troubles, to elevate ‘the crack in everything’ and not acknowledge ‘the light getting in.’ Our pleasures and joys are not a negation of humanity's suffering, a betrayal of those we have lost, or the denial of our various griefs. They are the bright, necessary, God-filled... See more