Random Prayer

Twice today I have had the experience to just stop and pray with two different people, not for any reason in particular, just because I wanted to enjoy practicing the presence that way. It has been a huge blessing. I often pray throughout my day but it has been a while since I stoped and prayed with somebody else just because God is good. I forgot that we are hard wired to do just that ... praise God for being so good - TOGETHER!

I think we can personalize our relationship with God so much so that we actually isolate our faith journey to exist just between us and him. I do not think that is a terrible thing but at best it means that our journey is one that we are on alone. I know that God is with us and that He will never abandon us but I also do not think that the fullness of joy, and Jesus said he came to make our our complete, can manifest without the fellowship of others.

The problem, my problem, is that because life can get so busy often we do not have time to just chill with other believers and share how amazing God is and what he is doing in our lives. I often live in this tension between serving others and serving "each" other. I see the example of Christ where he stopped to wash his brothers feet along side feeding 15,000 people. I am encouraged by the Acts 2 community that not only gathered in the temple courts together for prayer but also daily broke bread in each others homes.

I guess I want it all ... the fullness ... a completed joy.

I guess I will start with stopping tomorrow too.