Prayer
"What do you want?" Jesus asks you. It is such a simple question, and yet you know that how you answer that question is going to shape the rest of your days.
Standing there, poised between your old life and the future, you feel alive as never before. Time seems to stand still. All the colors around you are vivid; the sounds are clear and almost musical.
What do you say when Jesus asks what you want? Do you even know what you want? As you stand there, enclosed in a holy space even in the midst of a crowd, you examine your heart.
Are you coming to Jesus out of curiosity? Do you have some need you think he might meet or an intellectual question he might answer? Is there something in you that needs to be healed? Is there some brokenness, a piercing or unrelenting pain, a failure from your past that you would like him to carry? Do you need forgiveness? Is there something you have tried to fix that escapes your skill?
Exactly what is it that you want from Jesus of Nazareth? Tell him, in your prayer of the heart, exactly what you need.
Jeanie Miley
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