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SOMETHING TO PONDER ~ DR. David G. Benner Settling for Too Little Prayer is more than we could ever imagine because God is so much beyond what we can conceive. We are surrounded with gods that are too small to be up to the task of holding our deepest personal longings, never mind the world’s most urgent problems. Our childhood God will never be adequate for those tasks. The ways of understanding and relating to God that we acquired in home, church and community are often seriously limited, sometimes dangerously wrong. This is why it is so important that we allow our views of God to grow and develop. Perhaps your prayer remains more duty than devotion, more a matter of the head than the heart. Perhaps you know little or nothing of the sacred romance I have been discussing in recent weeks. Don’t be discouraged by this, but just as importantly, be careful to not allow yourself to become content with it. Remember that prayer is more a matter of consent than initiative. Trust that your prayer relationship with God has been established by God’s initiative, not yours. Your part is simply making space for God, turning to God with attentiveness and openness. Don’t think of this as an obligation. Hear it as an invitation to abundant and true life. Hear it as an invitation to the encounter in love that is prayer. Settle for nothing less than knowing God in love. This begins by knowing the depths of God’s love for you. All of us need to regularly return to this knowing. In fact, you can never get enough of it. Everything else that is required of you in life – your love of God, yourself, and others – all flows out of your personal knowing of God’s extravagant love for you. From the book: Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer Pausing for Reflection: Notice ways in which you may have settled for too little in terms of your relationship with God. What is keeping you from trusting God’s invitation to a fuller encounter with Perfect Love. Prayer: Grant me the grace to not settle too little in terms of my relationship with you.

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