“LORD OF ALL LIFE, we come before you not knowing who we are. We strut our stuff, trying to impress others with our self-confidence. In the process we hope to be what we pretend. Save us from such pretense, that we might learn who we are through trust in You to make us more than we can imagine… Bind up our wounds and our joys so that our lives finally make sense only as a prayer to You. Amen.” pg 29
I don’t know about you, dear reader, but this prayer certainly resonates somewhere deep in me. I must confess that I often feel as though I do not measure up to the person who others perceive me to be. Though this situation may in fact propel me forward toward becoming the person I am perceived to be, it is not honest.
I am not entirely sure I understand what this trust process is supposed to look like. It is probably very different for each one of us. I guess to trust in myself would be to strive to become my perceived self while trusting in God would transform me into what has not yet been perceived. Perhaps, there have been glimpses of what self will become. It could be that it is similar to the perceived self, even.
I do not want to fool myself into thinking that trusting that God will transform me into something “more than we can imagine” without any action on my part. On the contrary, this trusting business requires all kinds of action, none more impactful than prayer–LIVING prayer.
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