Awesome

I was rereading the introduction to one of my favorite devotions books, Ted Loders’s Guerrillas of Grace, this morning.  It tweaked my minds in several ways.  

Of course he wrote about grace and prayer.

He wrote about the liberation of the imagination.  

And he reminded me of a quote by St. Augustine:  

“Without God , we cannot;  without us, God will not,”

He writes about the Mystery of God.

And he asked two questions that have created in me some interesting reflection.

“Could it be that the images of poets and artist (and pray-er) not only precede scientific discovery in some instances, but that they actually help create what the scientist later discovers?”

“Indeed, could prayer be one of the fundamental ways ‘the universe becomes conscious of itself,’ to use that intriguing phrase by which some cosmologists explains not only how the universe seems to be unfolding, but why it is unfolding at all?”

What do these thing bring into your thinking?

At this point my mind is too overloaded with thoughts to think.

But I do want to remind us all that prayer is a most powerful thing that we can do.  “Prayer works” I learned years ago.

So lets use our imaginations to imagine how God has moved in and out of history thus far creating change, progress and inventions that can only boggle our simple little minds.  

Just for today, pray for a better world to come into being by the grace of God.