CHRIST IN WINTER:
Reflections on Faith for the Years of Winter
I’m always surprised at
people who do not pray. You need not believe in a God, or be an adherent of an
organized, or unorganized religion, to pray.
Even insensitive people
recognize that there is reality beyond what we experience with our bodily and
earthly senses. Prayer is entering into that reality.
It has nothing to do with
whether we “feel” something or not. I enter into many worlds each day, through
sight and sound and touch, without “feeling,” without any special awareness.
I often do not get the
results I want from those worlds of sight and sound and taste and touch, either.
I don’t stop using those senses, though, just because they don’t provide me the
views and tastes I want.
I continue to be part of
the sense world through senses, and the un-sense world through prayer, because
that is what it means to be human.
johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com
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