"Prayer is helplessness acknowledged."
"Prayer is helplessness acknowledged." J.R. Briggs
Knowing that you can't put the bandages on. Only God can do that. Not depending on ourselves but on Him.
Alternate bandages
Sometimes if wounds are so bad, it may take some time for prayer to heal them. Maybe then an action becomes a type of bandage. When I was told I would be leaving the exams job (Feb 28th is when they told me, I remember) I was so wounded. Not that there was any malice involved, just that I had worked hard, sacrificed a lot and felt that it was where I belonged. So I had to leave as staying just made the wound bigger.
Should I have stayed and prayed through and healed the wound? Maybe that would have been the stronger thing to do. But I am so happy where I am right now and it was only this past week where I really feel that the wound is contained and healing. As a pose to oozing and filled with pus!
Bandages
Today in his sermon Al talked about prayer as bandages. That made a lot of sense to me. I explains why sometimes praying for ourselves doesn't work. There are some places that you can't put bandages on yourself.
This summer was really difficult. I feel like I need a lot of bandages right now :)
Bandages of prayer poem
