tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735771248514471225.post1000918551132370335..comments2019-01-02T23:34:52.338-08:00Comments on She Answers Abraham: Pray Without CeasingShe Answers Abrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100433553612114433noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735771248514471225.post-88563874662211310372012-02-10T08:59:11.755-08:002012-02-10T08:59:11.755-08:00I appreciate DAV's questions about whether God...I appreciate DAV's questions about whether God finds our ceaseless praying to be tiresome, and I admit to sharing DAV's doubts (sometimes) about whether God is even listening to our prayers. I guess I approach the practice of praying and reciting blessings from a different direction: I believe prayer helps us to express our deepest desires and to reach beyond our petty concerns.<br /><br />I agree with Grace that the metaphor of God as a Company Boss misses the mark. Even a benevolent and fair boss disciplines his employees using incentives and disincentives to create compliance among the ranks. I prefer the metaphor of a parent: human parents may occasionally tune out their children's voices and deny their children's requests. (Believe me, I speak from personal experience.) Yet a parent's love of her children is boundless, infinite. When a parent must discipline a child--assuming that the parent-child relationship is a healthy one-- the parent teaches the child to live with natural and logical consequences of his actions. I see God, too, as a loving parent, helping us to live as healthy, independent beings in this world. Shalom, TziporahShe Answers Abrahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00100433553612114433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735771248514471225.post-1974462498344734942012-02-10T08:36:49.679-08:002012-02-10T08:36:49.679-08:00I think the metaphor of God as a company boss miss...I think the metaphor of God as a company boss misses the most important attribute of God--at least as I have come to see God--Infinite Love. Perhaps the gardener metaphor would be more apt? A gardener plants lots of seeds and carefully cultivates the soil, then takes great delight in seeing those plants sprout—flowers, herbs, grains, and more--in infinite variety! We don’t work for God; God works God’s love through us! From that perspective, I think our prayers, however imperfect they may be, are pleasing to God, as God works to help us bloom. I think God hears all our prayers. How God responds to our prayers may be the subject of another conversation. Blessings, GraceShe Answers Abrahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00100433553612114433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735771248514471225.post-23171649696871110762012-02-09T11:07:02.044-08:002012-02-09T11:07:02.044-08:00I have 1 question to the reader of this words. Ima...I have 1 question to the reader of this words. Imaggine you are THE BOSS of a big concern. Every day you go to work and all around the company that is yours. All employed people tell you every day the same! Like you pray 100 blessings! Would you think the will come with real problems of zhem selfs to you and like to have a information from you?? All Monks, the Pope and so much people are talking the same words to The Sir, i think he is bored to here this words and see theire dooing. If any one will come with his problems in mind to him. He or she will see how fast a answer of the BIG BOSS, of this company will com down to earth!<br /><br />Greetings<br /><br />DAVAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735771248514471225.post-10355590671757092682012-02-08T16:52:36.923-08:002012-02-08T16:52:36.923-08:00Oh, Frume Sarah, I do NOT keep my breathing from b...Oh, Frume Sarah, I do NOT keep my breathing from becoming routine! In fact, that’s the point! The prayer, once chosen consciously and attached to breath, flows in the natural, silent, and unconscious rhythms of my breathing every moment, every day. In conscious moments, especially if I catch myself holding my breath, I breathe deeply and give conscious utterance once again to the prayer that has already become a part of my spirit. Just as God gives me breath, God’s Holy Spirit, I believe, animates my breath prayer—yes, even when I am not aware! ~GraceShe Answers Abrahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00100433553612114433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735771248514471225.post-25552224727027593672012-02-08T11:50:00.222-08:002012-02-08T11:50:00.222-08:00I love Grace's breath prayer. I am curious, th...I love Grace's breath prayer. I am curious, though, if this is meant to be attached to each breath. And if so, does it not become routine? (Back to the old <em>kavannah</em> vs. <em>keva</em> (fixed) struggle, eh?)Rebecca Einstein Schorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09304661918070274646noreply@blogger.com