Let Something Happen To Me

Praying for heaven to come to earth, like what we talked about yesterday, means that we, too, get caught up in what needs to be changed on earth. Ultimately the book of Revelation paints a picture of the renewal of all things - where Jesus gets his Bride (which is you, amongst others!) and she is beautiful. She’s fully herself - just the way she was meant to be.

So let’s get on with the journey to get there!

Let this prayer be your friend and guide today on that journey to the you that Jesus sees.

O God, let something happen to me, something more than interesting or entertaining or thoughtful. O God, let something essential happen to me, something awesome, something real. Speak to my condition, Lord, and change me somewhere inside where it matters, a change that will burn and tremble and heal and explode me into tears or laughter or love that throbs or screams or keeps a terrible cleansing silence and dares the dangerous deeds. Let something happen in me which is my real self, O God.

- Ted Loder, quoted in Ruth Haley Barton, Pursuing God's Will Together