The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer, I do not only recall that during that time I sometimes read the Psalms and they became my psalms, or that, as I have also mentioned, I occasionally cried __esus_ and that name was my prayer, but I mean that I also at times would shout __uck!_ and that was no obscenity, but a most earnest prayerful utterance.In the final analysis, no matter what the vocabulary of prayer, or where muteness displaces words in prayer, the content__hat is communicated by a person in the world before God__n prayer is in each and every circumstance the same and it can be put plainly in one word: Help!That is the word of Gethsemane__ prayer; that is the word of the Lord__ Prayer; that is the prayer when Christ repeats the Twenty-second Psalm from the cross.It is the prayer of Christ interceding for all people, and it is the prayer of a human creature acknowledging God__ vocation in affirming the life which God has called into being.
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When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer, I do not only recall that during that time I sometimes read the Psalms and they became my psalms, or that, as I have also mentioned, I occasionally cried __esus_ and that name was my prayer, but I mean that I also at times would shout __uck!_ and that was no obscenity, but a most earnest prayerful utterance.In the final analysis, no matter what the vocabulary of prayer, or where muteness displaces words in prayer, the content__hat is communicated by a person in the world before God__n prayer is in each and every circumstance the same and it can be put plainly in one word: Help!That is the word of Gethsemane__ prayer; that is the word of the Lord__ Prayer; that is the prayer when Christ repeats the Twenty-second Psalm from the cross.It is the prayer of Christ interceding for all people, and it is the prayer of a human creature acknowledging God__ vocation in affirming the life which God has called into being.
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