No greater intimacy.

This weeks author is Douglas V. Steere who wrote Prayer and Worship. A Quaker and scholar who spent most of his life as Philosophy Professor at Hartford University. he died at the age of 94 in 1995.

 Douglas had much to say about prayer. However it was one short segment that intrigued me.



"There is no greater intimacy with another than that is which is built through holding him or her up in prayer."

It was the statement "No greater intimacy" that started me thinking. Wow to be able to deepen and enhance our feelings in the natural or to circumnavigate our negative feelings to bring change in someone's life.

What could that look like.

• Praying for a beloved spouse.
• Praying for ones adult children to maintain a level of intimacy even when they a not consistently physically present in your life.
•  Praying for estranged family members.
• Praying for struggling marriage.
• Praying for aging parents.
• Praying for those we find difficult to deal with

I am sure there are more examples. These add  to the things that we can do  in the natural to improve, maintain and enhance relationships. As we begin to pray deeply and consistently into our situation, it will change relationships for the better, no matter how good or how bad it is! I believe  it will just take time and commitment.

 

As we reach out our hands in the spiritual realm change begins to happen.

Oswald Chambers said My Utmost for His highest.

I believe that  My utmost for His highest can become my utmost for their highest as well.

 

 

I also the one who will benefit most out of this will probably be the one who is praying.

 

I am going to continue to work at this with my 20 minute praying intervals. I am not always able to be consistent with my commitments and meetings at work, but I feel it is working for me. Reach out your spiritual hand to someone this week.

 

Until next week.