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Prayer When Words Won't Come
O My Father, I have moments of deep unrest -- moments
when I know not what to ask by reason of the very excess
of my wants. I have in these hours no words for Thee, no
conscious prayers for Thee. My cry seems purely worldly;
I want only the wings of a dove that I may flee away. Yet all
the time Thou has accepted my unrest as a prayer. Thou
has interpreted its cry for a dove's wings as a cry for Thee,
Thou has received the nameless longings of my heart as the
intercessions of Thy Spirit. They are not yet the intercessions
of my spirit; I know not what to ask. But Thou knowest what I
ask, O my God. Thou knowest the name of that need which
lies beneath my speechless groan. Thou knowest that, because
I am made in Thine image, I can find rest only in what gives
rest to Thee; therefore Thou hast counted my unrest unto me
for righteousness, and has called my groaning Thy Spirit's prayer.
Amen
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Thanks be unto God for His wonderful gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.
"When you love, you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.'"
Kahlil Gibran
The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
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