Isn't It Interesting That All

Prayer Gets Us In On What God Is Doing.

The Gospel Is Never About Everybody Else; It Is Always About You, About Me. The Gospel Is Never Truth In General; It's Always A Truth In Specific. The Gospel Is Never A Commentary On Ideas Or Cultures Or Conditions; It's Always About Actual Persons, Actual Pains, Actual Troubles, Actual Sin; You, Me; Who You Are And What You've Done; Who I Am And What I've Done.

Praying Puts Us At Risk Of Getting Involved In God's Conditions. Be Slow To Pray. Praying Most Often Doesn't Get Us What We Want But What God Wants, Something Quite At Variance With What We Conceive To Be In Our Best Interests.

Too Much Of The World's Happiness Depends On Taking From One To Satisfy Another. To Increase My Standard Of Living, Someone In Another Part Of The World Must Lower His. The Worldwide Crisis Of Hunger That We Face Today Is A Result Of That Method Of Pursuing Happiness. Industrialized Nations Acquire Appetites For More And More Luxuries And Higher And Higher Standards Of Living, And Increasing Numbers Of People Are Made Poor And Hungry. It Doesn't Have To Be That Way.

Exile (being Where We Don't Want To Be With People We Don't Want To Be With) Forces A Decision: Will I Focus My Attention On What Is Wrong With The World And Feel Sorry For Myself? Or Will I Focus My Energies On How I Can Live At My Best In This Place I Find Myself?...'i Will Do My Best With What Is Here.'