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Longing For A Better World: Prayer Part 2

“May your kingdom come.” -from Luke 11:2

After we pray for God to gives us a sense of the sacred and the holy in our everyday lives, after we develop a sense of reverence for the world God is creating and sustaining, we then shift our focus towards our longing for God’s preferred world to become our very own.

The kingdoms of this world are built and sustained by money and power amassed the violence and exploitation. The abundance created by the sacrifices of the many end up in the storehouses of the few. We do not accept this world. Instead we pray and work for a world where “no one has too much, and no one has too little.”

We do not accept injustice and inequality no matter how intractable and pervasive they may be. We long for a better world. We pray for it every day. Then we go out and do our part to bring it into being. Let Your kingdom come.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Every Place Sacred, Everything Holy: Prayer Part 1

“When you pray, say: Father, may your name be revered as holy” - from Luke 11:2

The model prayer that Jesus taught his disciples in Luke begins with our reverence, with our desire to have an expanded sense of the sacred within and around us.

We live in a seemingly secular world. The definition of secular here that I’m using means things and activities without spiritual significance. So, normally to us some things are of spiritual significance but most things aren’t.

But if the “earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein” and if the cosmos “lives and moves and has its being in God”, how can there be anything or anyone that is without spiritual significance?

Trusting in the presence of a loving God, the first purpose or goal of prayer in Luke is to help us develop a sense of and a connection to this presence in our daily lives. Every place becomes sacred. Everything becomes holy.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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How We Thrive

“But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.” - Psalm 52:8

A brief web search reveals that olive trees live for a long time and are able to be and remain productive even under harsh circumstances.

The psalmist declares that our trusting in the steadfast love of God enables us to be like these trees.

This contrasts with the folks in the previous verse “who would not take refuge in God but trusted in abundant riches and sought refuge in wealth!"

It is true that we all need money and material resources to survive in this world. But no amount of money can ever make us thrive.

We thrive when we live lives rooted and grounded in the steadfast love of God in communion with others who are doing the same.

When conditions are rough and life gets tough, who and what will we depend on to see us through? If our primary focus is on money and power we will discover that we will not thrive even if we get them.

On the other hand, if we live our lives trusting in the power of God’s love to sustain us, we will thrive and be productive anyway.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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