Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m pretty sure I didn’t pick up this quote from its original source, but from a rollicking British novel by Elizabeth Cadell. But however it got there, it lodged in my mind and surfaced several years later as a rather whimsical reminder to enlarge my faith.
It sounds so bold and spiritual, this practicing audacious prayer. But uncomfortably often, the impossible things that face me are not of my choosing.
That’s when I’m forced to pray about troubles: my own and others’. Sometimes I’m just anxious, but sometimes I’m anxious for a good reason! Whether I’m reading an urgent email, or talking with a friend, or just jammed in by one of life’s sticky situations, I know anxiety is my call to pray – now.
Fumblingly, quietly, I believe — and He helps my unbelief.
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?”
“Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.”
Elisabeth Adams 