Thursday, 02 July 2009

• Currently Eye to the Telescope By KT Tunstall Silent Sea see related

   

  So... what up, blog readers? I am so very inconsistent in blogging, occasionally I decide to forego xanga altogether. We have Facebook now, so what's the point, right? But I just read something about discipline and writing as a form of spiritual discipline. Sure, I am not going to write out my heart and soul everytime I blog, but I think it's a good outlet for thoughts. I tend to better express myself in writing anyway... at least I used to! I hardly even journal anymore. Eh...It's hard to believe that I used to blog AND journal everyday. Gone are those days.

  Anyway! The main reason I decided to "blog now" was to quickly type out something I read this morning. It is from a daily devotional I picked up at church. The editor, Stephen Bryant, wrote the following:

  I like Tilden Edward's simple description of prayer: "Authentic prayer is opening to God's gracious presence with all that we are, with what Scripture summarizes as our whole heart, soul, and mind" (Matt. 22:37). The quality of our prayer, then, depends on the qualtiy - the honesty and constancy - of our presence to God. After all, the problem that prayer addresses is not God's absence from us but our absence from God. The good news of God's grace is Emmanuel: "God with us"! And yet, we are elsewhere. We fall asleep, spiritually speaking; we forget our connectedness to God; we bcome lost in our sense of separateness and self-sufficiency.

  I identified with this, especially since the topic/concept of "honesty" has been resounding my brain and life lately. I am learning more and more about being honest - with myself and with God, especially. The biggest struggle for me (and maybe many of us humans) is being honest with others. I pray OFTEN that I will have the strength to respond in honesty AND tenderness. For me, there is a point in a friendship where I can be honest (bluntly so), but to the detriment of the relationship. I need to learn how to lovingly be honest. SIGH! Yeah. May it be so!

  

  (This photo was taken on a walk in Capitol Hill in Seattle with my cell phone.)

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