Thursday, March 17, 2011

Seconding the motion

"Did you know that you only ask for what you have already begun to experience?  Otherwise it would never occur to you to ask for it.  

Further, God seems to plant within us the desire to pray for what God already wants to give us, and even better, God has already begun to give it to us!  We are always just seconding the motion, but the first motion is always and forever from God  The fact that you prayed at all means God just started giving to you a second ago  Isn't that wonderful to know?"
   

-- Richard Rohr, Marvelous Encounters

6 comments:

Louise Gallagher said...

Is that your work? It's beautiful Love hte blue heart.

Diane Walker said...

Nope, this is just one of the many beautiful items I found at Bedrock Industries (a glass and stone recycle shop in Seattle; same place I found the Buddha and St. Francis and the stone face.)

Maureen said...

Rohr is one of the most quotable writers!

That stone recycle shop looks like a great find.

Unknown said...

The quote gives me an amazing sense of peace this morning. Thank you.

Joyce Wycoff said...

Diane ... thanks for mentioning Bedrock ... wish I could get there but they have a great site which might feed my mosaic appetite.

Gberger said...

You know that I love RR, too. He is a true prophet. xoxo