More Mark Batterson Brilliance

Here's another quote from In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day.


"Maybe prayer is much more than a combination of the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet into words? I love Ted Loder's perspective in Guerillas of Grace:

'How shall I pray?

Are tears prayers, Lord?

Are screams prayers,

or groans

or sighs

or curses?

Can trembling hands be lifted to you,

or clenched fists

or the cold sweat that trickles down my back

or the cramps that knot my stomach?

Will you accept my prayers, Lord,

my real prayers,

rooted in the muck and mud and rock of my life,

and not just the pretty, cut-flower, gracefully arranged

bouqet of words?

Will you accept me, Lord,

as I really am,

messed up mixture of glory and grime?"

SIMPLE

FOOD

FOR

THOUGHT.

ENJOY.