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    How Do I Pray?: A Little Book Of Guidance
    How Do I Pray?: A Little Book Of Guidance
    How Do I Pray?: A Little Book Of Guidance
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    How Do I Pray?: A Little Book Of Guidance

    By John Pritchard

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    ‘It happens to most of us at some time or other. A faint stirring somewhere that there may be more to this life than meets the eye? The thought just flits across our air-space – ‘I wonder … is there something else?’ Perhaps something really brilliant or really tragic happens, and we’re not sure what to do with it. . . Maybe it even gets as far as a sense of reaching out from inside ourselves for something. But what? That elusive ‘something else’.
    John Pritchard explores the art and power of prayer and explains how to slow down enough to hear what God wants to say. A book for all who are curious about how to become more in tune with the Spirit.
    Intended for people looking for answers to life’s biggest questions, this little book of guidance will appeal to anyone, whether believer or non-believer, looking for a quick and easy way into the topic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSPCK
    Release dateMar 19, 2015
    ISBN9780281073238
    How Do I Pray?: A Little Book Of Guidance
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    John Pritchard

    John Pritchard was born in Wales in 1964. His NHS career began with a summer job as a Casualty receptionist in his local hospital, after which eye-opening introduction he worked in administration and patient services. He currently helps to manage the medical unit in a large hospital in the south of England. ‘Dark Ages’ is his fourth novel.

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      How Do I Pray? - John Pritchard

      Introduction

      It happens to most of us at some time or other. A faint stirring somewhere that there may be more to this life than meets the eye? The thought just flits across our air-space – ‘I wonder . . . is there something else?’ Perhaps something really brilliant or really tragic happens, and we’re not sure what to do with it. Perhaps we meet someone who really impresses us and we discover that person is a Christian. Or we go into a cathedral and something gently tugs at our subconscious. Maybe it even gets as far as a sense of reaching out from inside ourselves for something. But what? That elusive ‘something else’.

      Or maybe it even gets as far as a sense of gratitude, a sense of something given. ‘Thank God for that,’ we say, before we realize what we’ve said. Because God for many of us is still very much an open question. So it’s really rather embarrassing to feel gratitude when we’re not sure who to thank. But we fall crazily in love with a person or a place or simply with life itself, and we reach instinctively for someone to thank.

      All of these are common human experiences, but we usually don’t notice them and they get buried under an avalanche of new experiences surging along behind. These stirrings, however, may be profoundly significant. This tentative ‘reaching out’ may be like a fragile plant pushing its way through concrete, but it may be the first playful sign of a huge spiritual adventure.

      One writer talked about ‘signals of transcendence’ which litter our everyday experience. And indeed there are things going on all the time, like longing, laughter, falling in love, playing with a child, natural beauty (‘breathtaking’), moments in music (‘heart-stopping’) – all of which take us outside ourselves for a moment. There’s something else going on here. I wonder . . . ?

      So the first move in the spiritual adventure that I’m here calling ‘prayer’ is to recognize these moments when something stirs within us and to savour them. Not to let them be flooded and forgotten, but to notice them and hold them, tenderly, just for a while. And for the time being – that’s enough! Just recognize those moments for what they are, or might be. Signals of something else. A hint of something good. A glimpse in the night. A scent on the wind. An invitation.

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      Making space for God

      So there just might be something in it – this ‘something else’. And we might have noticed some germ of an instinct, some stirring inside. A reaching out. An instinct to say thank you, a need to say sorry, or a desire to help someone. But we can all too easily lose the moment unless we make space for it to breathe.

      And that’s what we’re terribly short of in our culture – space to let quiet things breathe. The pace of daily life is accelerating and the demands are unremitting. It’s as if we got on the 8.15 from Great Snoring, the slow train that stops at every little village, but instead of chugging its way gently through the countryside it gets faster and faster, accelerating steadily and inexorably, steaming through every station, until the carriage is swaying alarmingly and we’re hanging on to our seats and to our luggage – and still the speed increases!

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