I don’t like to pontificate here. Everyone has their own beliefs and that’s fine. But I feel compelled to share this with you.

Part of yesterday’s lesson at Church really spoke to me. The sermon was on Passionate Prayer and it defined the elements of it as this:

“An awareness of brokenness that creates desperation stirs passionate prayer.”

Huh. So a lot of the time we only pray passionately for something, i.e. in medical emergencies, accidents, times of great need, when we are aware of how broken we are. It creates that desperation inside of us, and we see that some things are just out of our hands.

I think this could be taken many ways. For me, I realized that I have some soul-searching to do in some areas of my life. Dating has left me pretty broken. Recent relationships especially. I’m trying to make something happen when I really should just let go and pray about it. It happens when you least expect it; that’s what everyone says anyway. 

Sometimes, those are harsh and expensive lessons to learn.