| | Harry Emerson Fosdick, in his book "The Meaning of Prayer," has this to say in his chapter discussing prayer as a battlefield. In the section that I'm gonna quote from, he's talking about how while some of the old Christian giants like Luther and Wesley spent hours in prayer, other people like Whitefield and St. Augustine did not. Here he makes the point that the length of the prayer isn't as important as the importance that prayer has in your life.
"With many of us time must be divided, as is the land of the United States. The little District given to congress for the Federal Government would on any quantitative basis be most ill-proportioned. Texas is 4,430 times as large as the District of Columbia, and even Rhode Island would contain it twenty times and over.SO one, regarding the brief time that a Christian spends in deliberate prayer, might cry out against such ill proportion, seeing how business and recreation of necessity preoccupy so many hours. But is not the answer clear?In quantity the District is small, but it is preeminently powerful. The government is there. Nothing goes on in all these states utterly out of the control and influence of that District. Its mandates are over the commerce and legislation of all the states; and every mooted question, not elsewhere resolvable, is taken before its Supreme Court for ultimate decision.
"Granted then, that our spiritual District of Columbia must be smaller in area than our State of Texas, have we done with that inward District what our fathers did in the nation? Have we solemnly chosen it and set it sacredly aside? Have we located there the central government, so that all power issues thence and all questions come back to it for settlement? Is it apparent to those who know us best that we would rather any other place in our lives should be taken by the enemy than this Capital of our Country, the place of prayer?"
I love it! Love analogies :)
Anyways, I'm off to Tasmania for Easter break! The land down under the land down under! I'll be in Launceston (LAWN-cess-ton) for two nights, then Cradle mountain for two nights, then Hobart for three more nights. I'll be back on Saturday the 29th in the morning. Between Launny and Hobart, I'll be hiring a car. Toyota Corolla 5-door hatch or similar. I got a freaking huge backpack in which I can carry a week's worth of stuff, and I booked cheap hostels (18-25 dollars a night) all along the way. Some of the details still need to be worked out and I still need to buy a thing or two, but I'm going and I hope it's gonna be great!
Cheers,
Brendan |
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