In her powerful and poignant book, Beyond Ourselves, Catherine Marshal writes of an extremely challenging time in her life when her focus was on herself. Many months into her painful ordeal she found herself praying, as she phrased it, “the prayer of relingquishment”. She prayed the highest and best prayer that anyone can pray, “Lord, not my will, but thy will be done”.
Upon relinquishing her request for herself, she gave herself over to God who gave her more than she could have hoped for. Jesus did not want to go to the cross, but resurrection followed.
What kind of prayers do you pray? Do you name your need and then believe God for the answer? Or do you give up what you want and gladly look forward to what God has for you, realizing that his answer may be light years from what you personally hope for?
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