Seriously. I was drawn back into believing because of wanting to pray for a beautiful young woman who desperately needs prayer. Actually she doesn’t because God will heal her if He wants and not if he doesn’t, so it doesn’t actually matter whether I pray for her or not. But when I was an atheist …
One of my ex-pastors wrote about luke 22 today. So I was thinking about it and to me, this is such a sad tale of unravelling. Jesus needs his friends but he doesn’t actually ask them to pray right with him, right then, for his needs – he goes a stone’s throw away. I think …
[Edited 1/7/22 to clean up various things in here and add some further clarification, now I am less ill than when I originally wrote this] [Edited 12/20/2021 to add: the original title was “Being Wrong Hurts People!” but I wanted to back off the certainty in that title.] Yesterday turned out to be a fine …