{"id":2223,"date":"2013-02-19T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T00:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salvagedfaith.wordpress.com\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2013-02-19T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T00:36:46","slug":"prayers-from-under-a-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/2013\/02\/19\/prayers-from-under-a-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers from under a blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s prompt begins with verse 6 of the familiar Psalm 139 (NRSV<\/em>): “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.”<\/p>\n

Look up today. Let the high places catch your eye and your imagination. Be full of wonder as you pick up your pen to pray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holy God, we turned up the thermostat tonight.<\/p>\n

Outside our walls the wind is rushing and swirling and stirring up everything in sight.<\/p>\n

It is a cold and bitter wind.<\/p>\n

It is the kind of that makes you want to hunker down and drop your head and close the hood of your coat in tighter.<\/p>\n

It is a wind that humbles you.<\/p>\n

Brings you to your knees.<\/p>\n

It moves with such power that it goes through your very bones.<\/p>\n

Goes through the bones of the house.<\/p>\n

Gets to the core even if you are wrapped up tight.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, God, you blow like that in my life.<\/p>\n

Your Spirit moves so fiercely through me that I have to back away.<\/p>\n

I want to curl up in a ball.<\/p>\n

I want to become small so that you won’t notice me.<\/p>\n

But you do.<\/p>\n

You get to me.<\/p>\n

You get into the depths of me.<\/p>\n

But instead of a cold and bitter wind, it is a touch of fire, a spark of movement, a calling to go and to do.<\/p>\n

And when I hunker down and try to resist, you get me anyways.<\/p>\n

You fill me up so that I can’t take it anymore.<\/p>\n

And brought low to my knees I have to respond.<\/p>\n

Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s prompt begins with verse 6 of the familiar Psalm 139 (NRSV): “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.” Look up today. Let the high places catch your eye and your imagination. Be full of wonder as you pick up your pen to pray. Holy God,…<\/span><\/p>\n

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