my friend Brad leads this Monday night thing called Emmaus, us "young adults" get together and we talk about God. I am using his computer because I left my own computer charger at my boyfriend's house.
tonight, we talked about God. again!
tonight he mentioned this C.S. Lewis quote - I need to find it verbatim but I did it find it quoted in various places on this internet thing here -
he said that, prayer doesn't change God, really. prayer changes us. it causes our hearts to grow. we pray to God, we talk to him about anything in our heads, anything we feel, and it transforms us more than anything else.
because, a lot of people, sometimes feel like they don't pray enough. our small brains think so "cause + effect" that we think our actions have to do with the "good" or "bad" things that happen to us.
God is way more mysterious than that, I can't seem to figure him out.
and I'm pretty glad about that.
either way, we never really do enough, we are never really good enough people.
but it's okay! because it's really the grace(!) of God that is the point. i think.
unconditional love!
it's funny 'cause as humans, we're really terrible at unconditional love. there's always conditions. always. yet, a God who is pleased with us at any point in our lives, at any time, is a pretty cool guy.
how fun!
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