Growth in Faith - Praying the Mystery Blog

Dear friends,

During this semester I will offer a biblical reading and a prayer reflection each weekday, Monday through Friday.

These personal reflections will focus on Jesus and his revelation of God’s kingdom in word and deed. They will be based on the Gospel lesson for the coming Sunday from the Revised Common Lectionary.

This practice welcomes me into deeper intimacy with Jesus. It also helps me--and those who pray the texts along with me--to carry God’s word through the week, savoring it, welcoming the Spirit who speaks through the text to shape our vision and action.

I will move slowly and contemplatively through each reading, sometimes offering prayers for several days from same verse or two as they continue to speak to me. From time to time, the reflections will not be mine but those of students involved in LSTC’s meditative writing workshop. Each entry includes the writer’s name.

I hope the biblical readings and prayers will stir your prayers and reflection. Please read and reflect upon each prayer. Then pray your thoughts, feelings, questions and insights. Offer whatever the Spirit gives you, praise or petitions, confession or confusion, words or wonder. Then rest in the mystery of God’s loving presence.

I call this series Praying the mystery because our lives are a mystery hidden in a Love we can never fathom. In prayer we seek intimacy with the Love every heart desires and for which every life was made. There alone, we truly know ourselves—and the Loving Mystery who has treasured us since before the birth of time. We pray that we may see and know ourselves in Christ and be filled with the life he is pleased to share.

Pr. David L. Miller
Dean of the Chapel, Cornelsen director of spiritual formation

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