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My favourite story in the whole Bible is Jesus’ instruction, “Ask and you shall receive.” I know it to be true, and I’ve had the gift on many an occasion of praying and knowing when a prayer has been answered. It is a great comfort to me that God never tires of our prayers or our asking, even as I know He knows that I am a selfish creature of near-infinite needs and conflicting and constant wants. I knock often.
I want the absolute trust the soldier had at Christ’s death, or that of the thief who stole heaven, or of Martha, who professed the resurrection of the dead before Christ raised her brother. I want to be like the centurion who told Jesus He need not come to his home, but to only say the word so that all would be healed. I loved that phrase before Holy Communion. I took it into my heart, knowing it was true then and remains true now.
I wish my faith were the size of half a mustard seed. I don’t need a mountain to move — just lots of molehills. Yet I know that mountains have moved in my life — whole mountain ranges of miracles to keep me alive for more than 50 years. Still, I come every day, hungry for more, asking for more, and wondering whether I’m coming only to be satisfied, or whether I’m dissatisfied because I’ve tasted the infinite and thus cannot want less.
I have children wandering, and I want them back. My heart aches each day, as I know they willingly seek to be elsewhere. And I wonder: What did we do? How could we have shown them more?
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