Friday’s Reflection
“I THINK I’M ADDICTED TO LONGING,” my friend Daniel once said to me. We talk about longing from time to time, how we are drawn to it, how it fuels us. …
Desire can offer clues to God’s longing for our lives. Yet I’ve known the times when it has provided less of a map than a dwelling, a residence, a space where I have invited my longings in, entertained them lavishly, fed them well, and wound up being consumed in return. . . .
That’s why it’s crucial to learn to pray with our desires, to sit with what we think we want. Longing bids us to a kind of lectio [sacred reading/hearing of the scriptures] in which we approach our desire as a sacred text, that we may discern where God is stirring within it and what God desires for us.
- Jan L. Richardson
In the Sanctuary of Women
From page 288 of In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection & Prayer by Jan L. Richardson. Copyright © 2010 by Jan L. Richardson. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Today’s Question
What role does longing have in your prayer life? Share your reflections.
Today’s Scripture Reading
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