Comments on: The Long and Wandering Process of Prayer http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer ...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:57:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Friday’s Links » Kneel at the Cross http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526969 Friday’s Links » Kneel at the Cross Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:57:50 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526969 [...] mike has posted on the Internet monk site a post about Long and Wandering prayer. It’s based on sections from a book by David Hansen and it talks about spending all day in prayer. [...] [...] mike has posted on the Internet monk site a post about Long and Wandering prayer. It’s based on sections from a book by David Hansen and it talks about spending all day in prayer. [...]

]]> By: J.A.R. http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526593 J.A.R. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:29:54 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526593 I'm married with a teenager. Converting to Catholicism wouldn't be the issue. I’m married with a teenager. Converting to Catholicism wouldn’t be the issue.

]]> By: Jonathan Brumley http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526561 Jonathan Brumley Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:56:14 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526561 One of my favorite verses on this is: "Be still and know that I am God". One of my favorite verses on this is: “Be still and know that I am God”.

]]> By: Patrick Lynch http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526557 Patrick Lynch Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:40:03 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526557 So what keeps you from the monastery? So what keeps you from the monastery?

]]> By: J.A.R. http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526499 J.A.R. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:32:34 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526499 I am another who is at risk of entering a monastic life. Two of the most powerfully spiritual weeks of my life have been at two retreats at a place that focused on silence and contemplation. When you have nothing to do all day but spend it in prayer, your prayer life will be something like you've never experienced. Strolling through the woods, thinking about God, meditating on His word, taking the time to just sit and listen..... too often we forget that God already knows what we're asking for and what we need... and maybe we need to stop talking and just shut up and listen. On the other hand, I've read bloggers who put together extensive proofs that prayer is only about talking to God. If you stop talking, you're outside scripture. I am another who is at risk of entering a monastic life. Two of the most powerfully spiritual weeks of my life have been at two retreats at a place that focused on silence and contemplation. When you have nothing to do all day but spend it in prayer, your prayer life will be something like you’ve never experienced.

Strolling through the woods, thinking about God, meditating on His word, taking the time to just sit and listen….. too often we forget that God already knows what we’re asking for and what we need… and maybe we need to stop talking and just shut up and listen.

On the other hand, I’ve read bloggers who put together extensive proofs that prayer is only about talking to God. If you stop talking, you’re outside scripture.

]]> By: How I Pray for My Family and Friends | internetmonk.com http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526496 How I Pray for My Family and Friends | internetmonk.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:05:27 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526496 [...] addition to the practice of “long wandering prayer” to which David Hansen introduced me, I find keeping set times of “saying my [...] [...] addition to the practice of “long wandering prayer” to which David Hansen introduced me, I find keeping set times of “saying my [...]

]]> By: Kat http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526489 Kat Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:40:07 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526489 Wandering prayer is a far more intentional kind of prayer that the bulleted prayer lists and scripted "quiet times" beloved by most of us coming out of the evangelical closet. It's far easier to allot 10 minutes to prayer at the end of a time of scripture and devotional reading each morning than it is to drop the calendar and walk with God. There is security in a regimen...but who knows what God will say to me when I give Him all the time in the day. And who knows where He will want me to walk? Wandering prayer is a far more intentional kind of prayer that the bulleted prayer lists and scripted “quiet times” beloved by most of us coming out of the evangelical closet. It’s far easier to allot 10 minutes to prayer at the end of a time of scripture and devotional reading each morning than it is to drop the calendar and walk with God. There is security in a regimen…but who knows what God will say to me when I give Him all the time in the day. And who knows where He will want me to walk?

]]> By: Chaplain Mike http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526457 Chaplain Mike Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:08:34 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526457 I don't think it's necessary to leave everyday life. However, <em>time</em> is an essential element, as in any relationship. As A.W. Tozer once said, "He would know God must give time to him." I don’t think it’s necessary to leave everyday life. However, time is an essential element, as in any relationship. As A.W. Tozer once said, “He would know God must give time to him.”

]]> By: MWPeak http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526455 MWPeak Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:47:40 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526455 While contemplative prayer is good, I am always at risk for abandoning everything and everyone for a monestary existence. I do not believe that God has called me to such an existence, though it is extremely tempting. While contemplative prayer is good, I am always at risk for abandoning everything and everyone for a monestary existence. I do not believe that God has called me to such an existence, though it is extremely tempting.

]]> By: briank http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-long-and-wandering-process-of-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-526450 briank Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:02:31 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=5870#comment-526450 my first thought when i read this was also "pray without ceasing". we should look at our prayer with God as a "casual conversation" ,as you have said. I often think about the character Tevye in the "fiddler on the roof" - he spends the whole movie telling God exactly what he thinks---when I first watched the movie as a teenager I felt he was been blasphemous ----but now i see it is being at home with God. I have a "holy hammock" in the backyard where I often partake in the long wandering prayers. peace my first thought when i read this was also “pray without ceasing”. we should look at our prayer with God as a “casual conversation” ,as you have said. I often think about the character Tevye in the “fiddler on the roof” – he spends the whole movie telling God exactly what he thinks—when I first watched the movie as a teenager I felt he was been blasphemous —-but now i see it is being at home with God. I have a “holy hammock” in the backyard where I often partake in the long wandering prayers.
peace

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