Prayer Streaming – #13

Prayerstreaming – the Passionate Heart

One of my favorite shows on TV is Everybody Loves Raymond. There is an episode where Ray and Debra go out for dinner and worry because they don’t have anything to talk about about. This goes around in our house too. I just don’t mind being together and being quiet. Somebody else though seems to think I have secret plots going on in my mind. He can’t quite figure out that I just enjoy being together and being quiet.

McHenry writes about coming to this point in our communion with God. She compares it to a camp fire:
The best part of a fire, though is when the flames are settled and the sparks have stopped flying. All that’s left is a warm glow that provides a sense that all is right with the world. Perhaps when our prayerful conversation with God also quiets, we then truly experience intimacy. Similarly when we are not speaking it doesn’t mean our conversation with God has ended. Instead, it may have entered a deeper state of knowing.
The quiet passionate heart may be the deepest waters of all. In here God tucks us under his wings and holds us close to His heart. Luke 13:34 The one thing that I have learned with the 117 baby chicks at our house is how vulnerable and tiny they are. Right after they came to live with us, we had a bit of a cold snap. I got up three times that night to look out the window and be sure the heat lamps were still on. If that is my heart for baby chickens, what how deep is God’s heart for me.
Lord, let me sit here for a time and feel the weight of your wings settle down around me.