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SUMMER
1999Anonymous
When your eye is single, your whole body is also full of Light—Luke 11:34.
Lord, give me a single eye—focused, centered, ever being magnetically pulled back to your choices, your priorities, your way of simple discipleship, glorifying and loving You, listening for your voice of command and guidance, amid the many voices that offer easier, less demanding, man-approved, self-enhancing, deceptively tempting choices.
Lord, bless me with joy at doing voluntarily and cheerfully what your still small Voice speaks, if/when I listen and intend to obey.
You are a loving and joyful Companion if/when I am a willing and cooperative child and follower. Lord, give me that attentive, focused, willing spirit, so that I am useable.
You are leading me into new and joyful insights each day. You speak specifically. Help me to always respond “Yes” with cheer, joy, and willingness.
Open new expectancy as I strive to listen for guidance and to love You for yourself. Move the focus of my life from a multiplicity of things and activities and desires and other gods to a strong, attentive centering on your Inner Leading. Teach me to hear many things because I am a cheerful listener and follower.
Thank you, Lord.
[This prayer was submitted anonymously by a contributor who asks: "Might it be possible to state questions or topics to which anyone might offer insight or experience, but on which they would be unlikely to write a complete article?" In the Light of this prayer, perhaps I might ask: How do you pray? Answers received will be compiled for the fall Salem Quarter News. And the following comes from another Friend, who writes: "This grabbed me because I hunger also. ... Perhaps others out there also hunger—and so we could come together some time for a feast."—Ed.]
Frank Laubach
In defense of my opening my soul and laying it bare to the public gaze in this fashion, I may say that it seems to me that we really seldom do anybody much good excepting as we share the deepest experience of our soul in this way. It is not the fashion to tell your inmost thoughts, but there are many wrong fashions, and the concealment of the best in us is wrong. I disapprove of the usual practice of talking “small talk” whenever we meet, and holding a veil over our souls. If we are so impoverished that we have nothing to reveal but small talk, then we need to struggle for more richness of soul. As for me I am confinced that this spiritual pilgrimage which I am making is infinitely worth while, the most important thing I know of to talk about. And talk we shall while there is anybody to listen. And I hunger—O how I hunger for others to tell me their soul adventures.
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