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Prayer is not asking or ‘controlling’ but ‘being’ with God
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Prayer is not asking or ‘controlling’ but ‘being’ with God

Back in my seminary days, I remember a phrase that captivated my imagination: “wasting time with God.” It was some kind of parody or radical criticism of the modern productivity-crazed world’s disavowal of the godly, spiritual or prayerful life as a waste of time. Hence, back then, we indubitably “enjoyed” wasting time with God in...