Talking to God.Methodist pastor and author Joe B. Jewell Jewell is the name of several places in the United States:
"No single approach will work for everyone. The expression that works for one will not work for another. The hope is that, no matter how the individual identifies the Divine, anyone who prays will find what works best for him or her, what fits, what makes communicating with his or her Higher Power Higher power is a term used in a 12-step program, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, to describe "a power greater than yourself." Although many participants equate their higher power with God, a belief in God or in formal religion is not mandatory; the higher power is intended as a comfortable. "That does not mean it is OK to allow idiosyncratic id·i·o·syn·cra·sy n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies 1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group. 2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity. 3. expression to become unintelligible UNINTELLIGIBLE. That which cannot be understood. 2. When a law, a contract, or will, is unintelligible, it has no effect whatever. Vide Construction, and the authorities there referred to. . If you don't make sense to someone else, you probably are not making sense to yourself or the Great Other, and while the Divine may know what you mean, it is just as important for you to know what you mean. That is what makes this mysterious conversation meaningful." --The Elements of Prayer: Learning to Pray in Real Life (New World Library) |
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