Core Values:: Prayer

 

One of my favorite games is the zoom in and zoom out game. 

The fun of the game is always found in how foreign everyday items look when you zoom in so far you lose all context and perspective. What you are looking at isn't something obscure or hard to identify, but a shift in your vantage point changes everything. Something you should know on sight becomes totally alien. 

I think this is a good metaphor for the spiritual journey. There's a kind of living and engaging with this world that can encounter the power of a loving God who created and remains in all we see and know. The coffee shop I sit in while I type this doesn't change in substance one bit, but my perspective on what's going on with the people swirling around me sure can. 

We all have things that will fill up the rest of today. Those who are interested in how the story of Jesus impacts the events and people of our day don't have different days, but how we engage those days should change. It's not a change in substance, it's a change of perspective. 

There are certain things that we can do that help us maintain a larger or zoomed out perspective on people and events. Prayer is one that I think needs greater levels of engagement and practice. Taking our frustrations, hopes, dreams, joys and sadness to an eternal place resets all the finite events that make up our days. I think this can change everything because we are powerless to control the circumstances of our day, but in prayer we are empowered to engage well with these uncontrolled circumstances. 

If you're frustrated, confused or uninterested in prayer I invite you to come join us this Sunday. I think there's something powerful for you in the act of prayer you may not have experienced previously.