November 30, 2021 "Eager Expectation"

Thank you, Gina, for reminding us of the serenity prayer and the need for discernment.

The two verses from his passage in which I can find meaning for myself are 8:21 and 8:28. When Paul writes that we do not know how to pray and so the Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words — it’s like a description of contemplative prayer. And what is our deepest prayer but one for unconditional love? And if we can experience that love, both individually and corporately, we can have faith in discerning the things that will work together for good. . . .If only I could do more than just glimpse that love momentarily.

Back to Catherine Keller’s book, “God will answer out of [the creative chaos of] the whirlwind (Job 38:1)“ — even though when in the whirlwind, chaos may be all we can see. That makes waiting hard!