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Drawing from Eugene Peterson's book, The Contemplative Pastor, we explore what it means to pray into the will of God.
Peterson parses out three tenses in the Greek language – the active voice, the passive voice, and the middle voice. The active voice takes action (i.e. I counsel my friend), the passive voice receives action (i.e. I am counseled by my friend), while the middle voice “actively participates in the results of an action another initiates” (i.e. I take counsel).
In applying this to prayer, Peterson writes,
I do not control the action; that is a pagan concept of prayer, putting the gods to work by my incantations or rituals. I am not controlled by the action; that is a Hindu concept of prayer in which I slump passively into the impersonal and fated will of gods and goddesses. I enter into the action begun by another, my creating and saving Lord, and find myself participating in the results of the action. I neither do it, nor have it done to me; I will to participate in what is willed.
This practice comes from The Abbey, an online community for lovers of Jesus and yoga. Each month we release two full-length practices and this short practice is part of a longer slow flow. Get in on the goodness at theyogaabbey.com
