I like a prayer book and liturgy to guide me in my faith rather than falling back into my comfort zone of controlling reality with my learned and carefully chosen words, and without leaving it up to me to come up with what to say here and now when I just may not feel like it.
The Sin of Certainty, Peter Enns
I’ll find it eventually. One draw back of listening to audiobooks is not being able to find a quote that I would have underlined. Found it! I purchased the ebook Kindle edition LOL!
I like a prayer book and liturgy to guide me in my faith rather than falling back into my comfort zone of controlling reality with my learned and carefully chosen words, and without leaving it up to me to come up with what to say here and now when I just may not feel like it. I teach, I write, I speak. All those words. I need to leave my words at home at least once a week. I like reciting common words together with those sitting near me, with those far away, and with centuries of fellow pilgrims long gone. I need to be a part of something bigger than myself to believe with me—and when needed to believe for me.
The Sin of Certainty, Peter Enns
As I looked over something I wrote back in 2018 about my brothers and I… I saw this:
This statement of mine, reminded me of what Peter Enns said… about liturgical prayer.
I need to be a part of something bigger than myself to believe with me—and when needed to believe for me.
The Sin of Certainty, Peter Enns
Liturgical Prayers, from how Enns is describing it, are prayers that are written down, from the faith experience of others. I would include prayers like The Serenity Prayer, and the Prayer of Abandonment
Of all the good and bad that may or may not be true about AA… the good part is that folks who have decided to stay with one another, while abandoning their addiction… is this image of climbing out of the complicated mess we find ourselves in.
Running Down Vimy 