Subject: tongues: are there 2 kinds? |
Bible Note: Retxar, how well I can indentify with your prayer that was "simple and lacking." Some 12 years ago, in the wake of my son's sudden accidental death, my prayers often were not only simple, but actually lacking of any real words at all. I prayed through tears and with a voice so constricted by grief that no words could be formed, only cries, groanings, whimpering moans. Yet I was convinced then, and am just as convinced still, that God heard my cries of profound sorrow and responded as readily to them as He would had they been clothed in language having all the beauty and grandeur of a Shakespearean sonnet.... Retxar, I believe the simple three-word prayer, "Jesus save me" that was prayed from the heart of the little 11-year-old child you once were, caused more rejoicing by the angels of heaven than any mechanical recitation of an entire prayer book of the most eloquent of prayers could ever do. --Hank |