Response to “No More Monologues” Editorial

Cynthia,

I wanted to thank you for a couple of things you wrote in the September/October issue of Pray! magazine.  First, I really enjoyed your article on praying for political issues and leaders.  I have used some of the same examples and arguments in my teaching on group prayer at church, and your article really rang true with me.  I’m especially grateful for the scriptures you included; I’m going to start using them as I pray for our country.

But I was especially moved by your editorial called “No More Monologues”.  It was such a reflection of my own prayer life and hit me at what I believe is a turning point in my prayer journey.  What you wrote about you talking to God in prayer and God talking to you through the Scriptures – that’s always been just how I looked at it.  I’ve never heard God speaking to me in prayer, and I’ve never been disappointed about it…I just accepted that that’s how it works for me, even though others seem to have a richer and deeper experience.

I’m beginning to yearn now for that deeper, richer prayer life – one that involves really understanding God’s heart and listening for His Spirit.  I’ve been reading Foster’s Celebration of Discipline and that, combined with your comments and input from several other sources all seem to be pointing me in the same direction of a more intimate, more personal conversation with God than I’ve ever experienced.  It’s stretching to say the least – not at all in my comfort zone (which is mostly praying through lists).  But I sense that this is God’s next step for me.

Anyway, your editorial just hit home to such a degree that I felt I had to write and thank you.

–Andrew Wheeler
<http://www.togetherinprayer.net>

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