Thank you oh so very much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ, and thank you for your encouragements!
The point is, the gesture must match the Truth, in present consciousness, in order to be truly effective. People who forget this necessary connection are sleep-walking through the exercise.... Well and truly said! Immediately the Lord's Prayer or Our Father - and the 23rd Psalm come to mind.
The words are so familiar to us by now, it is altogether too easy to speak them without actually thinking about what we are saying. In this case the gesture doesn't involve limbs or torso but vocal chords; nevertheless, the point you raise is the same. The gesture must match the Truth in our consciousness for the prayer to be effective - otherwise we are just sleep-walking or in this case, sleep-talking.
If this be the case, then God does not reduce to terms of human rationality and experience. All the religious talk in the world does not change a thing about this situation, which has obtained since the very foundation of the Creation....
So very true, but the joy I feel every time you and I share our thoughts about Christ is pure ecstasy to me.
I myself am presently "unchurched," but a faithful Christian nonetheless. I may be more in the "school" of the "bakery Christians" of your own experience, dearest sister in Christ, than I am of any other school at the present time. Unless the Lord moves me otherwise, I am very likely to remain in that condition. And "happy as a clam" to do so (as they say 'round these [New England] parts).
LOLOL! I too am "happy as a clam" being a bakery shop kid! To God be the glory, not man, never man!
So very true, but the joy I feel every time you and I share our thoughts about Christ is pure ecstasy to me. Oh, me also, dearest sister in Christ! But we never are "arguing." It's never a "competition" of whose understanding of scripture is "better" than the other guy's. LOL!
I agree, the point I raised about gestures also applies to prayer: "The gesture must match the Truth in our consciousness for the prayer to be effective - otherwise we are just sleep-walking or in this case, sleep-talking."
Wonderfully said, dearest sister in Christ!