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Learning to Pray His Way #7: Prayer and Pain

Days of Darkness

 Twenty-five days.  Two years.  Three countries.  Four states.  And darkness all around.

             As I often do, I spent the beginning of a New Year reflecting on recent and not-so-recent events.  In the quiet moments of early-morning meditation, I sensed a pattern.  A disturbing pattern.  I began jotting down dates and details to put words to my intuition.  It was the morning of January 19, 2010.  I sadly realized that for the past twenty-five days, I had witnessed too much pain in the lives of too many people.

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Present Tense: Revolution: The Calming Words of Gracious, Compassionate (Ex. 34:6)

Walter Wangerin Jr. has written a book called The Story of God.  In it, Wangerin writes out the stories of the Bible so that they read like a novel.[1]  In the early chapters, Wangerin leads us to the base of Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.  Moses has been called by God up to the mountain for forty days.  That’s a long time—forty days.  It’s more than five weeks.  And while Moses is gone up above, down below resources are disappearing and resolve is evaporating.   

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