{"id":2217,"date":"2013-02-18T23:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.wordpress.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2013-02-18T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:33:46","slug":"prayers-from-the-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/2013\/02\/18\/prayers-from-the-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers from the ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jesus and the devil have a contest of wills in the desert (Luke 4:1-13). At one point, &#8220;the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, &#8216;To you I will give their glory and all this authority.'&#8221; (4:5-6, NRSV)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the devil said to Jesus, &#8220;All of this can be all about you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In your prayer-writing today, wrestle with God against the temptation to see life as &#8220;all about you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out my tendency to waste time.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out my doubts and regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out fretting over my figure.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out the dirty dishes on the counter.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out the successes I had this week.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out my ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out tunnel-vision of a busy day.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out a selfish definition of &#8220;busy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out time spent talking when I should have been listening.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out the stuff that fills my cupboards.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out goals and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out tomorrow&#8217;s to-do list.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out what I want people to think of me.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out me.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out me.<\/p>\n<p>Gradually,\u00a0 may I be filled with what you desire.\u00a0 May I decrease as you increase.<br \/>\nBreathe in God.<br \/>\nBreathe out me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus and the devil have a contest of wills in the desert (Luke 4:1-13). At one point, &#8220;the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, &#8216;To you I will give their glory and all this authority.&#8217;&#8221; (4:5-6, NRSV) &#8230; the<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/2013\/02\/18\/prayers-from-the-ego\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[84,567,593,766,1027,1107],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lent","tag-authentic","tag-kenosis","tag-lent","tag-prayers","tag-true-self","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lent.jpg?fit=1032%2C774&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7cYpi-zL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}