madeleine wrote:I don't have a belief that God works around us. God works through us, in our everyday lives. Right where we are, now.
I like this. I would add: even when we don't know it, or acknowledge it.
:)
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
just me wrote:madeleine, I really enjoyed your comments.
Thanks. :)
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
"NightlionIt was embarrassing and such a prayed did not lift and inch off the table towards heaven.
You are right. A prayer is nothing but wishful thinking. You can pray all you want; you will get no response. But If you pray to my God SpagettiMonster even for ten minutes, I can mail you Ten Dollars to show that SpagettiMonster aerlly exists. (I'm not joking).
"As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are" Harold B. Lee, "Admonitions for the Priesthood of God", Ensign, Jan 1973