Day 12. Developing Your Friendship With God
Ellsworth Kalas is a treasure of the United Methodist Church and one of my favorite authors. I commend to you his book, Longing to Pray: How the Psalms Teach Us to Talk with God.
The chapter titles tell us much. “The Ultimate Friendship.” “Secrets of Friendship: Candor.” Secrets of Friendship: Time.” “Secrets of Friendship: Beauty.” You get the picture.
In the chapter on beauty, Kalas says, “The palmist was constantly about his business of bringing beauty into the divine friendship. The prayers of the psalms are such passionate, heartfelt, tumultuous writings, yet their dominant characteristic is beauty. This beauty seems appropriate when the prayer is one of adoration or thanksgiving. But there seems to be the same quest for beauty when the writer is bereft in the midst of trouble, or bitterly angry at what he or she feels is God’s neglect or indifference.” (page 35)
Reflect on bringing beauty into friendships even in the midst of tumult or anger. I think prayer, friendship with God, can teach us how to live.
Grace and peace and prayers,
Rick
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