I’m working on an article for Kyria and I just love this quote from a commentary regarding the idea of “rejoice always, pray without ceasing” from 1 Thessalonians 5:
“Prayer and Rejoicing are closely related, for often believers find in prayer the means of removing that which was the barrier to their joy.”
Whether worry, or fear, self-indulgence or self-pity, misplaced longings or isolation–going to God in prayer removes that which keeps me from experiencing his joy. And this picture certainly captures that joy!
If that’s not a good reason to get praying……
In other news, The Divine Pursuit is like my crazy sorority sister, popping up all over the place:
- I’m over on author Sarah Cunningham’s blog: We share freakish childhood memories and happen to be the same age, and so this post on her blog about laugh lines that she happened to write on my birthday makes me hap, hap, happy!
- Check out Jody Along the Path, who also had me over to her bloggity-blog. We are new blogging friends and happy to get connected! I particularly liked her blog about grown-up children. Right on, Jody!
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