Monday, July 2, 2012

Dear Book of Common Prayer,

        You have been so helpful for the last few months. Reading your prayers has been a wonderful addition to my spiritual life. In the last few months you have helped me in so many ways. Most importantly you have helped me articulate my prayers and reorienting my mind. To often I forget who God is. I forget his goodness, his faithfulness, his providence, his power, his love, his salvation. I forget the blessings he has given me in past, the ones I currently receive and the ones that are to come.

        However, I am not alone. So many Christians through out the history and around the globe suffer from the same amnesia. Book of common prayer, you have been a great resource to remind me of who is God. Reminding me of his character and his promises. When I am stressed I can quickly to turn to your prayers for the unemployed and the poor in order to remember that God is a God who provides for his people. When I look upon my sin and despair I read your prayers and see God's grace and remember a God who died for my sins. When I am lonely, I am reminded that I have family of believers that I can turn towards. You have sat patiently in my basement on my desk for months just be waiting to be read. Thanks for being available

        Yes this charimastic evangelical is blessed by your collection of prayers and litanies. I would like to thank the Episcopal church for publishing the volume I own.