RENOVARE - Readings - Perspective [April 1994]

RENOVARE - Readings - Perspective [April 1994]

I know you may not know what a prayer journal is but incase you want to read a good resource for a prayer journal here it is.

This is how it starts out..

GROWING TOGETHER

How to Start a Prayer Journal. Few things can nudge us toward God more than the keeping of a prayer journal. What is a "prayer journal"? Well, if prayer is the ongoing interaction we have with God, and a journal is a record of those experiences and thoughts we deem valuable, then a "prayer journal" preserves those interactions, events, and reflections from our external and internal worlds which track our personal history with God. It is an Ebenezer of sorts—a way of declaring "hitherto has the Lord helped us."

History is replete with the prayer journals of disciples of Jesus Christ. From Augustine's Confessions to Lady Julian's Showings to Pascal's Pensées to Woolman's Journal to Dag Hammarskjöld's Markings to Luci Shaw's God in the Dark, we are privileged to share in some of the finest of Christian devotion. These journals, of course, merely represent and illustrate the myriads upon myriads of unpublished prayer journals of followers of the Way throughout the centuries. It is a long and honored tradition.

Question: what do you do with a prayer journal? Answer: almost anything you want. There is no right way or wrong way to go about a prayer journal. You are a unique individual before God with special gifts that only God can reveal and special needs that only God can satisfy. Together, you and God will find the prayer and journal pilgrimage that is best for you......