“Ask and receive–’tis sweetly said;
Yet what to plead for know I not,
For wish is worsted, hope o’ersped,
And aye to thanks returns my thought.
If I would pray
I’ve naught to say,
But this, that God may be God still;
For time to live
So still to give,
And sweeter than my wish his will.”
We do not begin to realize the possibilities of prayer. There is no limit, for example, to the scope of prayer. We may embrace in it all things that belong to our life, not merely those which affect our spiritual interests, but those as well which seem to be only worldly matters of indifference to God. One writes: “Learn to entwine with your prayers the small cares the trifling sorrows, the little wants of daily life. Whatever affects you, – be it a changed look, an altered tone, an unkind word, a wrong, a wound, a demand you cannot meet, a sorrow you cannot disclose – turn it into prayer and send it up to God. Disclosures you may not make to man, you can make to the Lord. Men may be too little for your great matters; God is not too great for you small ones. Only give yourself to prayer, whatever be the occasion that calls for it.”
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