What I’ve Learned From Ten Years of Praying Together with BSK Students
By John Inscore Essick
Praying together is…
- Belief and doubt
- Family-friendly and family-dividing
- Waiting and pushing ahead
- Kneeling and standing
- Silence and shouting
- Weeping and laughing
- Asking and demanding
- Slow and on the run
- Patient and impatient
- Seeking promises and calling out unfulfilled promises
- Certain and confused
- Exonerating and condemning
- At ease and on edge
- Presence and absence
- Focused and scattered
- Holding and releasing
- Forgetting and remembering
- Asking and telling
- Clearing and muddying
- Filling and emptying
- Heaven and hell
- Excruciating and exhilarating
- Building up and tearing down
- Uniting and dividing
- Submitting and protesting
- More and less
- Retreating and advancing
- Ready and hesitant
- Defiance and acquiescence
- Already and not yet
- Control and abandon
- Power and weakness
- Abundance and scarcity
…Come pray together with us.
